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National Cancer Institute scientist who led the plant antitumour screening programme from 1960

Jonathan L. Hartwell

National Cancer Institute

Wani and Horwitz write that the National Cancer Institute screening programme for antitumour agents in plants was initiated in 1960 under Jonathan L. Hartwell, and that he assigned the Pacific yew samples to the Research Triangle Institute.

Sources

  1. Wani MC, Horwitz SB. Nature as a remarkable chemist: a personal story of the discovery and development of Taxol. Anticancer Drugs. 2014;25(5):482-7.

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