Pharmacologist

Alfred Gilman

Yale School of Medicine

Described by Christakis (2011) as a pharmacologist who, with Louis Goodman, led the Yale team funded by the US Office of Scientific Research and Development to study mustard agents. First author listed in PubMed for the 1946 Science paper on the biological actions and therapeutic applications of the B-chloroethyl amines and sulfides.

Milestones

1946 Nitrogen mustard: first chemotherapy for lymphoma, reported 1946

Sources

Christakis P. The birth of chemotherapy at Yale. Bicentennial lecture series: Surgery Grand Round. Yale J Biol Med. 2011;84(2):169-72.
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GILMAN A, PHILIPS FS. The biological actions and therapeutic applications of the B-chloroethyl amines and sulfides. Science. 1946;103(2675):409-15.
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