Susan Horwitz
Susan Horwitz · Science & Medicine
Pharmacologist who determined the mechanism of the anticancer drug Taxol.
1937, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
United States (New York — Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Susan Horwitz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Pharmacologist who determined the mechanism of the anticancer drug Taxol.
Horwitz, an American Jewish molecular pharmacologist, determined in the late 1970s how the anticancer drug Taxol (paclitaxel) works — by stabilizing microtubules and thereby blocking cell division. This mechanistic insight guided Taxol's development into one of the most widely used cancer chemotherapies.
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Pharmacologist who determined the mechanism of the anticancer drug Taxol.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
