Jane Wright (left) and Donald Glaser (right)Left: National Library of Medicine Right: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Jane Cooke Wright, a pioneer in chemotherapy, died last month (February 19) at age 93, The New York Times (NYT) reported.
A native Manhattanite, Wright began her career working alongside her father, Louis Wright. At the cancer center at Harlem Hospital, which her father had started, they experimented with new chemotherapeutic drugs.
When her father died in 1952, Wright became the head of the cancer center, and a few years later she was appointed head of cancer research at the New York University Medical Center, where she helped develop a surgery-free system for delivering chemotherapeutic drugs deep into the body.
Wright also founded the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). She moved to New York Medical College as the associate dean and head of chemotherapy ...
