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Posted on Friday, Jan 16, 2009

Cancer Drug Inventor Donates $1M for Student/Faculty Research

Source: Hamilton College

Edward C. Taylor, inventor of pemetrexed (Alimta), has recently donated $1 million to his alma mater, Hamilton College, to establish The Edward and Virginia Taylor Fund for Student/Faculty Research in Chemistry. Long before Mr. Taylor become a Professor of Chemistry at Princeton , he was as student at Hamilton not sure if he should take biology or chemistry to fulfill his science requirement. He flipped a coin to decide and chemistry won the day. It soon became his passion, as well as the focus of his life’s work.

Dr. Taylor eventually joined the faculty at Princeton, where he completed his most important professional success: the invention of pemetrexed. The drug has now been approved in 92 countries for the treatment of mesothelioma and lung cancer and still represents the only FDA-approved agent for pleural mesothelioma.

To learn more about Dr. Taylor, we encourage users to read the profile of him on the Hamilton College website.