Career
In 1970, aged 40, she started Agvar Chemicals and co-founded Marsam Pharmaceuticals in 1985. She became the founder and President of Aegis Pharmaceuticals in 1992. Throughout the 1990's and 2000's Dr. Varis maintained a close relationship with Hillary Clinton and President Bill Clinton. Dr. Varis was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, which encompassed 26 leading citizens from the private sector with an interest in and commitment to the humanities and the arts.
Its members also included twelve federal members whose agencies had cultural programs, such as the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the U.S. Department of Education, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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