Harold Varmus [interview by Karen Birmingham].

ABSTRACT

He may have stepped away from the hottest seat in biomedical research, but Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus shows no signs of withdrawing from the frontline of the biomedical research community, and he still displays the inimitable combination of political astuteness and scientific expertise that made his reign as director of the United States National Institutes of Health so successful. Varmus spoke to Nature Medicine for the first in a series of profiles that the journal will run on scientists that make a difference to biomedical research.