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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2007;297:354.

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The National Library of Medicine has released an extensive selection of papers of molecular biologist and science administrator, Harold Varmus, MD, on its Profiles in Science Web site at http://www.profiles.nlm.nih.gov. Varmus, a former cancer researcher, National Institutes of Health director, and Nobel laureate, helped develop the theory that cancer arises from mutations in individuals' own genes.

The National Library of Medicine has released an extensive collection of papers of Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, MD, on its Web site. (Photo credit: A. Adler/Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center)

The National Library of Medicine collaborated with the University of California, San Francisco to digitize Varmus' correspondence, laboratory and lecture notes, research proposals, published articles, and photographs. This brings to 20 the number of notable scientists with records included in Profiles.