Sidney Farber
Sidney Farber · Science & Medicine
Pathologist regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy for his work on childhood leukemia.
1903, Buffalo, New York, United States — 1973, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
United States
Sidney Farber was an American-Jewish pathologist who pioneered cancer chemotherapy.
Farber was an American pathologist regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy after he induced the first remissions in childhood acute leukemia using antifolate drugs in 1948, and he co-founded the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Born into a Jewish family in Buffalo, New York, he was Jewish.
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Pathologist regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy for his work on childhood leukemia.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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