- He graduated from Princeton University and from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He served as a captain in the Army Medical Corps.
- He was an oncologist who headed up large-scale clinical trials that successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of chemotherapy. With combination chemotherapy, in which multiple drugs are used together, he effectively cured one type of childhood leukemia and laid the groundwork for the treatment of several other forms of the disease. After joining the National Cancer Institute in 1953, he met Lloyd Law, who had found that mice with leukemia responded better to drugs that were given in combination than to drugs given in sequence. In effect, the cancer was unable to fight off chemicals that targeted different pathways inside the cells.
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