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Aug 03, 1923 Springfield, Massachusetts, United States Died on 22 Nov 2017 (aged 94)
American chemist
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About Edward C. Taylor
- Edward Curtis Taylor, Jr.
- (August 3, 1923 – November 22, 2017) was an American chemist who designed and synthesized the chemotherapy drug pemetrexed (brand name Alimta), an inhibitor of purine biosynthesis, with grant support from the U.S.
- National Cancer Institute, NIH.
- Taylor studied for his PhD from 1946 to 1949 at Cornell University with Professor Cornelius Cain.
- As of 2009, royalties for this drug from Eli Lilly & Co.
- paid to Princeton University were sufficient to completely finance a state-of-the-art 263,000-square-foot (24,400 m2) chemistry laboratory building.
- Taylor has trained 187 PhD students.
