Grendel in Film, Literature, and Popular Culture
Grendel also appears in Harold E. Varmus' speech that he gave for winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncogenes at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1989. Harold E. Varmus compared a cancer cell to Grendel as a cancer cell is "like Grendel, a distorted vision of our normal selves".
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