Harold Varmus.

The Yale Graduate Student Research Symposium (GSRS) is an annual event organized solely by graduate students. The GSRS is an open forum for sharing and learning about the research being conducted by the next generation of scientists today's graduate students. This year, on November 1, 2002, some 300 Yale researchers from graduate students to distinguished faculty gathered in the Levitson Auditorium at Yale Law School to take part in this event. Five graduate students, out of many who submitted proposals, were chosen to talk about their research, as well as one distinguished faculty member, Dr. Pietro DeCamilli of the Cell Biology Department. The students who presented were only an introduction to the variety of disciplines of research that were presented at a Poster Session and Reception held in the Beinecke Rare Books Library following the symposium. Following these talks the keynote speaker, Dr. Harold Varmus, presented a talk about "Defining Cancer Maintenance Functions," an interesting talk focusing on three concepts of cancer cells: initiation, maintenance, and progression, which are currently being studied in his laboratory. Dr. Varmus, a distinguished scientist with a Nobel Prize, is the former Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), E* A