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 INDICE: 1. Beginnings2. The University of Leeds: Foundation of a Career3. The Chance to be a PhD Student at The University of Leeds4. Two Antiestrogenic Strategies to Treat Breast Cancer at the Worcester Foundation5. A New Strategy: Long-Term Adjuvant Tamoxifen Treatment and Other Discoveries at the University of Leeds6. Tamoxifen's Patenting Problems in America, Which Created a Cancer Treatment Company?7. Two Opportunities in Different Continents8. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of Tamoxifen at Wisconsin9. Sliding Door? and Serendipity10. South to Northwestern in Chicago11. Forward to the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia12. Get out and Go to Georgetown, Washington, DC13. 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 Young16. Scientific Survival Suggestions17. An Account of PhD Students over 50 years of Tamoxifen Teams18. Case Studies: In Their Own Words
- ISBN: 978-0-323-85051-3
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha Publicación: 25/01/2022
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés