Interview with Harold E. Varmus (53 minutes)Interview with the 1989 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Harold E. Varmus, March 2009. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Harold Varmus describes his broad education at Amherst College and his transition from a masters in English Literature to a medical degree from Columbia University, his shift to laboratory science at the National Institutes of Health, and his subsequent research on cancer at UCSF (13:11). He then discusses his ten year collaborative partnership with Mike Bishop (17:35), his Nobel Banquet Speech (23:45), his directorship of the NIH (26:07), his current role as a political advisor on science to Barack Obama (39:34), his commitment to the 'open-access publishing movement' (43:07), and his hope to create a Global Science Corp (50:53).   Credits: Ladda Productions AB (camera)