Full Description
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.
Contents
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
