User:Lquilter/Jane Cooke Wright
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Jane Cooke Wright (b. Nov. 17, 1919) is a pioneering cancer researcher, noted for her contributions to chemotherapy. In particular, Wright is credited with developing the technique of using human tissue culture rather than laboratory mice to test the effects of potential drugs on cancer cells. She also pioneered the use of the drug methotrexate to treat beast cancer and skin cancer (mycosis fungoides).
Born in NYC; 1938 Smith College graduate; 1945 MD from New York Medical College; Residencies at Bellevue Hospital and Harlem Hospital in New York.
Damon Runyon award in 1955; treated cancer patients in Kenya in 1961; one of seven founders of American Society of Clinical Oncology (1964); appointed to National Cancer Advisory Council (1967); first woman elected president of New York Cancer Society elected 1971. She retired in 1985.
[edit] References
- Robert C. Hayden, "Jane Cooke Wright", Black Women in America: Profiles (MacMillan Library Reference USA, New York), p. 321.
- Edward Sidney Jenkins, Patricia Stohr-Hunt, and Exyie C. Ryder, To Fathom More: African American Scientists and Inventors (University Press of America, 1996).
Category:American physicians Category:Medical researchers Category:Cancer researchers Category:Female physicians Category:African American physicians Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
