The Classic: Integration of Deoxyribonucleic Acid Specific for Rous Sarcoma Virus after Infection of Permissive and Nonpermissive Hosts (RNA tumor viruses/reassociation kinetics/duck cells)

摘要

Embodying a renaissance of interests and aptitudes, Harold Varmus (b. 1939) has led the modern molecular genetic revolution, directed our national health research endeavor, and propelled Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to new levels of accomplishment. As a physician and son of a physician, Dr. Varmus has always recognized that the patient is the reason for what we do. He has been a constant advocate for translational research. After studying philosophy and English literature he devoted himself to science, achieving the highest level of success. Dr. Varmus made important contributions to our understanding of glucocorticoid action, hemoglobinopathies,hepatitis B and, most importantly, retroviruses. This culminated in his receipt of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 with Michael Bishop for their fundamental observations that cancer is a disease of genes.