Harold Varmus, former director of the National Institutes of Health and Nobel Prize winner for his work on cancer biology, will discuss his memoir “The Art and Politics of Science“ at a free event on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 7:30PM. The talk, part of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Author Events, will be held at the Central Library at 1901 Vine Street (on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway).
Varmus is currently president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and co-chair of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. His memoir “shares his perspective from the trenches of politicized battlegrounds ranging from budget fights to stem-cell research, global health to science publishing.1“ Read an interview from the American Scientist.
