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Robert Schnitzer

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Robert Schnitzer · Science & Medicine

What

Chemotherapy researcher

Where

Germany · United States

Biography

Robert Schnitzer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Chemotherapy researcher

How & why

Robert Schnitzer was a German-Jewish émigré pharmacologist who, from 1941, headed the chemotherapy department at Hoffmann-La Roche's laboratories in Nutley, New Jersey. His group tested compounds against infectious diseases and maintained tumor models used in early cancer drug research. He was Jewish, having fled Nazi Germany; precise birth and death dates are not established in the sources consulted.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science

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Chemotherapy researcher

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science