Comments and Commentary

• Written Testimony on Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request (Senate)
  March 28, 2012
  Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; Committee on Appropriations; United States Senate
• Written Testimony on Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request (House)
  March 20, 2012
  Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; Committee on Appropriations; United States House of Representatives
• Interview with NPR’s Science Friday
  December 23, 2011
• MedScape One On One Interviews Harold Varmus
  December 21, 2011
  Interview with Science
• Interview with The Cancer Letter
  July 22, 2011 and July 29th, 2011
• Interview with Nature
  Published online July 6, 2011
  Nature 475, 18 (2011)
• Written Testimony on Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Request
  May 11, 2011
  Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; Committee on Appropriations; United States Senate
• Federal Coach: Talking Leadership with National Cancer Institute's Harold Varmus
  March 23, 2011
  Washington Post
• The Purpose and Conduct of Science
  March 9, 2011
  Rede Lecture (As Delivered)
  University of Cambridge
• The Writing Life of Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Harold Varmus
  September 19, 2010
  Washington Post
• Benjamin DeMott Lecture
  August 30, 2010
  Amherst College
• Harold Varmus: How I Became a Scientist
  August 2010
  iBioMagazine

Previous Comments and Commentary

• A conversation with Harold Varmus
  August 2009
  Charlie Rose
• Book TV: Harold Varmus "The Art and Politics of Science "
  May 13, 2009
  CSPAN-2
• Harold Varmus on Medical School, Cancer Biology and Nobel Prize
  March 17, 2009
  WNYC Radio
• The U.S. Commitment to Global Health
  December 16, 2008
  David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture
• Progress toward Public Access to Science
  April 8, 2008
  PLoS Biology
• Enhancing the Contract: The Federal Government and American Science in a New
  Administration
  April 3, 2008
  Harvard university Kennedy School of Government Science & Democracy Lecture Series
• 2007 Atkinson Forum in American Studies
  April 30, 2007
  Atkinson Forum in American Studies
• The Future of Science in the 21st Century
  April 16, 2007
  Amherst College
• Freeing Scientific Culture: The Fight to Provide Public Access to Results the Public Finances
  March 26-27, 2007
  Arthur Allen Leff Fellowship Lectures
• Free Radical
  June 2006
  WIRED
• Is Science Under Siege?
  November 16, 2005
  American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  1895th Stated Meeting
• Downstate Medical School Graduation
  May 24, 2005
• Carey Lecture - AAAS Policy Meeting
  April 22, 2004
• Managing Biomedical Research to Prevent and Cure Disease in the 21st Century
  October 2, 2003
• Caltech Commencement Address
  June 13, 2003
• NYU School of Medicine Commencement Address
  May 15, 2003
• Testimony on Smoking in Public Places and Places of Employment
  October 10, 2002
  New York City Council
• Nobel Foundation's Centennial Speech
  December 6-8, 2001
  Nobel Foundation's Centennial Symposia: Beyond Genes
• Convocation Talk at Lawrence University
  April 30, 2002
• Lasker Awards Luncheon
  September 21, 2001
  Role of Government in Research
• A discussion about the causes of cancer
  July 13, 2000
  Charlie Rose
• A discussion about mapping the human genome
  June 21, 2000
  Charlie Rose
• Wesleyan University Commencement Address
  May 28, 2000
• Washington University School of Medicine Commencement Address
  May 19, 2000
• An interview with Harold Varmus
  October 8, 1999
  Charlie Rose
• The Impact of Physics on Biology and Medicine
  March 22, 1999
  Plenary Talk, Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society
• Statement on the President's Budget Request for NIH
  February 23-24, 1999
  House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education
• NIH Director's Statement on Research Using Stem Cells
  January 26, 1999
  Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies
• New Developments in Medical Research: NIH and Patient Groups
  March 26, 1998
  House Commerce Subcommittee on Health and Environment
• New Directions in Biology and Medicine -- AAAS Plenary Lecture
  February 13, 1998
  American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Statement before Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety
  October 9, 1997
  Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety; Committee on Labor and Human Resources; United States Senate
• Stanford Medical School Graduation Speech
  June 15, 1997
• Commencement Talk, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
  May 21, 1997
• Harvard University Commencement Address
  June 6, 1996
• Medical School Commencement Talk: Mayo Clinic
  May 18, 1996
• Shattuck Lecture -- Biomedical Research Enters the Steady State (PDF)
  May 20, 1995
  Presented as the 105th Shattuck Lecture; to the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society
• Defending the Nation's Health: Building on the Basics
  March 14, 1995
• American Society for Microbiology National Meeting
  May 26, 1994
• Keynote Lecture: Basic Science and the NIH: American Society for Cell Biology Meeting
  December 11, 1993