www.ibiology.o... How does an English literature major ultimately end up as a cancer biologist? Varmus tells us of his circuitous path to becoming a scientist to illustrate the many routes that one can follow to a career in science.
Everything Sir Varmus expresses then still more than applies today. A pionneer always curious and looking for the beauty of Science of Cells and what it means to be human.
starting research at UCSF at the age of 30 with a doctoral degree is not late at all. I am not sure why Dr. Varmus thought that it was a prolonged adolescence.
