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Howard E. Skipper  

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  • AN AMERICAN BIOCHEMIST, and leader of the anticancer drug research at the Southern Research Institute, Howard E. Skipper discovered the protocol for combination chemotherapy to eradicate cancer cells. He was the winner of the Charles F. Kettering Prize of the General Motors Cancer Foundation in 1982 for “the conceptual and experimental contributions that led to cures of acute leukemia, lymphoma and solid tumor malignancies,” and in 1974, Skipper had been awarded the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award, “for his studies of the metabolic actions of anticancer drugs in normal and tumor-bearing animals which revealed the mechanism of inhibition of nucleic acid synthesis by folic acid antagonists.” The award noted that “Dr. [Source: Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society; Skipper, Howard E.]

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