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First author of the 1963 daunomycin paper, Described as director of Farmitalia's microbiology and chemotherapy research laboratories in Cassinelli's review

Aurelio Di Marco

Istituto Ricerche Farmitalia

First author of the May 1963 Tumori paper describing daunomycin; Crossref gives his given name as Aurelio and his affiliation as the Farmitalia research laboratories of microbiology and chemotherapy in Milan. The 1964 Nature paper and the 1981 review The discovery of daunorubicin list the first author as Di Marco A. Cassinelli's 2016 review describes a Prof. Di Marco, director of the Istituto Ricerche Farmitalia Research Laboratories for Microbiology and Chemotherapy, who cooperated with Karnofsky of Sloan-Kettering on the first transatlantic clinical trials of daunomycin and sent Bonadonna the first vials of adriamycin in July 1969.

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  1. Di Marco A, Gaetani M, Dorigotti L, Soldati M, Bellini O. Daunomycin: a new antibiotic with antitumor activity. Tumori. 1963;49(3):203-17.

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  2. DIMARCO A, GAETANI M, OREZZI P, SCARPINATO BM, SILVESTRINI R, SOLDATI M, et al. 'DAUNOMYCIN', A NEW ANTIBIOTIC OF THE RHODOMYCIN GROUP. Nature. 1964;201:706-7.

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  3. Di Marco A, Cassinelli G, Arcamone F. The discovery of daunorubicin. Cancer Treat Rep. 1981;65 Suppl 4:3-8.

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  4. Cassinelli G. The roots of modern oncology: from discovery of new antitumor anthracyclines to their clinical use. Tumori. 2016;2016(3):226-35.

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