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Tamoxifen Tales
Suggestions for Scientific Survival
Presents the scientific story behind the discovery of tamoxifen, reflecting on the versatility of the scientist and his perseverance, resilience and hard work
V. Craig Jordan (Author)
9780323850513, Elsevier Science
Hardback, published 26 April 2022
312 pages, 50 illustrations (20 in full color)
23.5 x 19 x 2.3 cm, 0.81 kg
"…. The story is engaging, the accomplishments remarkable and highly impactful. Dr. Jordan has not only mentored his students and fellows, he has helped support their educational expenses on occasion and has endowed lectureships in former institutions important to his development. Finally, I am disheartened by one of the early vignettes in this book: Craig recounts his own struggle with metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Four years and all the usual therapies with good but waning results. May the ongoing search for another effective approach bear fruit. V. Craig Jordan still has much to contribute!" --The Cancer Letter
Tamoxifen Tales: Suggestions for Scientific Survival presents a case study describing the academic journey of teams behind major advances in medical sciences, highlighting lessons learned that are applicable to the next generation of scientists. This book provides a manual on the successful mentoring of young scientists, including stories describing how training experience shaped careers to become leaders in academia and the pharmaceutical industry. The book documents Professor V. Craig Jordan’s 50-year career in medical sciences that led to the discovery and development of Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs), which became the standard of women’s healthcare around the world. Additionally, it illustrates the versatility of a scientist with a commitment to serving societies. This important resource will be a useful and interesting book for established medical scientists, research mentors and advanced students wanting to chart a successful and impactful research career.
1. Beginnings
2. The University of Leeds: Foundation of a Career
3. The Chance to be a PhD Student at The University of Leeds
4. Two Antiestrogenic Strategies to Treat Breast Cancer at the Worcester Foundation
5. A New Strategy: Long-Term Adjuvant Tamoxifen Treatment and Other Discoveries at the University of Leeds
6. Tamoxifen’s Patenting Problems in America, Which Created a “Cancer Treatment Company?
7. Two Opportunities in Different Continents
8. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of Tamoxifen at Wisconsin
9. “Sliding Door? and Serendipity
10. South to Northwestern in Chicago
11. Forward to the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia
12. Get out and Go to Georgetown, Washington, DC
13. Closing the Circle of Tamoxifen Tales?
14. “If I Wanted to Buy Your Brain, What Would That Cost??: Rebirth at MD Anderson
15. Invest in the Young
16. Scientific Survival Suggestions
17. An Account of PhD Students over 50 years of Tamoxifen Teams
18. Case Studies: In Their Own Words
Subject Areas: Pharmacology [MMG], Cytology [MFCC], Epidemiology & medical statistics [MBNS], Clinical trials [MBGR1], Pharmaceutical industries [KNDP]
