Tamoxifen Tales
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Tamoxifen Tales

Suggestions for Scientific Survival

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Tamoxifen Tales

Suggestions for Scientific Survival

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About This Book

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.

  • Highlights lessons learned from the journey behind discovery science that are applicable to the scientific journey of the next generation of scientists
  • Provides a manual on the successful mentoring of young scientists to become leaders in academia and the pharmaceutical industry
  • Examines cancer treatment based on a personal determination to challenge at the frontiers of the science and to relate to personal life experience
  • Includes references for further research reading

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Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780323859721
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Pharmacology

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Dedication
  7. Dedication
  8. About the author
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. The scope and foundation steps in a career
  11. Foreword—Melvyn Bragg
  12. None
  13. Why write this book?
  14. Prelude
  15. Chapter 1. Beginnings
  16. Chapter 2. Leeds University: foundation of a career
  17. Chapter 3. The chance to be a Ph.D. student at the University of Leeds
  18. Chapter 4. Two antiestrogenic strategies to treat breast cancer at the Worcester Foundation
  19. Chapter 5. A new strategy: long-term adjuvant tamoxifen treatment and other discoveries at the University of Leeds
  20. Chapter 6. Tamoxifen's patenting problems in America, which created a “cancer treatment company”
  21. Chapter 7. Two opportunities on different continents
  22. Chapter 8. The good, the bad and the ugly of tamoxifen at Wisconsin
  23. Chapter 9. “Sliding Doors” and serendipity
  24. Chapter 10. South to Northwestern in Chicago
  25. Chapter 11. Forward to the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia
  26. Chapter 12. Get out and go to Georgetown
  27. Chapter 13. Closing the circle on Tamoxifen Tales
  28. Chapter 14. “If I wanted to buy your brain, what would that cost?”: rebirth at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
  29. Chapter 15. “Invest in the young”
  30. Chapter 16. Scientific survival suggestions
  31. Chapter 17. An account of students obtaining a Ph.D. degree (or an MD for physicians in the British System) while in the Tamoxifen Team over the last 50 years
  32. Chapter 18. Case studies: in their own words
  33. Index