Owen Witte
Owen Witte · Science & Medicine
Cancer biologist who elucidated the BCR-ABL cause of chronic myeloid leukemia
1949, United States
United States
Owen Witte is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Cancer biologist who elucidated the BCR-ABL cause of chronic myeloid leukemia
Witte is an American physician-scientist at UCLA whose demonstration that the BCR-ABL fusion protein drives chronic myeloid leukemia underpinned the development of imatinib (Gleevec), the first targeted cancer therapy. He is listed among Jewish biomedical scientists, though public biographies do not detail his religious background.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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Cancer biologist who elucidated the BCR-ABL cause of chronic myeloid leukemia
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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