By NYO Staff 7/30/01 12:00am

Manhattan Community Boards

Paging Dr. Harold Varmus: Negative Results on Build Plan

A year and a half ago, Dr. Harold Varmus went to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital with impeccable credentials-former director of the National Institutes of Health, a 1989 Nobel Prize-and a mandate to rev up research at the East Side institution.

Dr. Varmus, Sloan-Kettering’s new president, Read More

By NYO Staff 5/28/01 12:00am

East Side Neighbors Fear Memorial’s Unchecked Growth

When Harold Varmus took the helm at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in January 2000, the Nobel laureate and former director of the National Institutes of Health made it clear that cancer research was his passion and expansion of the institution’s facilities his goal.

Already Dr. Varmus, Memorial’s president, has overseen the successful realization of a new 67th Read More