Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 1989
Harold E. Varmus received the 1989 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. The contribution became an important reference point for later work in the field. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.