Ira Pastan
Ira Pastan · Science & Medicine
Molecular biologist who developed immunotoxins for targeted cancer therapy
1931, Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States
United States
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Pastan is an American molecular biologist at the U.S. National Cancer Institute who pioneered recombinant immunotoxins — antibody fragments fused to bacterial toxins — as targeted therapies for cancer, work that led to an approved treatment for hairy cell leukemia. He also made early discoveries on cyclic AMP and gene regulation. He is Jewish.
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Molecular biologist who developed immunotoxins for targeted cancer therapy
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