Stephen Lippard
Stephen Lippard · Science & Medicine
Chemist known for bioinorganic chemistry, including the mechanism of the anticancer drug cisplatin
1940, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
United States
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Lippard is a founder of modern bioinorganic chemistry, best known for elucidating how the anticancer drug cisplatin binds and distorts DNA — work that guided the design of platinum-based chemotherapies. A longtime MIT professor, he received the U.S. National Medal of Science. Reference works on Jewish scientists list him among Jewish chemists.
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Chemist known for bioinorganic chemistry, including the mechanism of the anticancer drug cisplatin
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
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