Craig Jordan - the 'father of Tamoxifen' and anti-oestrogens has passed away
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Craig Jordan (who discovered Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs) and developed breakthrough breast cancer treatments), died June 9, 2024, at his home in Houston, sadly from renal cell carcinoma. He was 76 years old.
He was born in the USA but went to the UK as a child & did all of his medical training in the UK but eventually relocated to the USA, where he died.
An interesting write up on him, here - apparently Tamoxifen was initially used as contraception (but in fact, it increased fertility!) He applied it to blocking oestrogen in women with breast cancer - and it has been used ever since.
https://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/md-anderson-celebrates-the-life-and-legacy-of-v-craig-jordan-PhD.h00-159698334.html
And info from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Craig_Jordan
He was born in the USA but went to the UK as a child & did all of his medical training in the UK but eventually relocated to the USA, where he died.
An interesting write up on him, here - apparently Tamoxifen was initially used as contraception (but in fact, it increased fertility!) He applied it to blocking oestrogen in women with breast cancer - and it has been used ever since.
https://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/md-anderson-celebrates-the-life-and-legacy-of-v-craig-jordan-PhD.h00-159698334.html
And info from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._Craig_Jordan
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A write up of Craig Jordan in the Sydney Morning Herald on Thurs ..2