Medicine
Dr. Jane Cooke Wright
1919–2013
1940s-1960s
Pioneering cancer chemotherapy research
What Jane contributed
Developed methods for testing and selecting chemotherapy drugs for individual tumors.
The story
Wright led cancer research, became a high-ranking medical-college professor, and helped found the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Why it matters
Her research helped establish chemotherapy as an effective and more precisely evaluated cancer treatment.
Continue reading
← Back to Science & Medicine
