Isaac Djerassi
Isaac Djerassi · Science & Medicine
Oncologist who pioneered platelet transfusion and high-dose methotrexate chemotherapy
1925, Sofia, Bulgaria — 2011, United States
Bulgaria · United States
Isaac Djerassi is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Oncologist who pioneered platelet transfusion and high-dose methotrexate chemotherapy
Isaac Djerassi was a Bulgarian-born American oncologist who pioneered platelet and white-blood-cell transfusions and developed high-dose methotrexate with citrovorum ('leucovorin') rescue, techniques that made aggressive cancer chemotherapy far safer and saved many patients. He received the Lasker Award in 1972. He was Jewish, born to a Sephardic Jewish family in Sofia.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Oncologist who pioneered platelet transfusion and high-dose methotrexate chemotherapy
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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