Dr. Jane C. Wright was the daughter of Dr. Louis Tompkins Wright and an internationally renowned cancer researcher. She worked to improve chemotherapies to human leukemias and cancers using human tissue culture.
Dr. Wright worked primarily in New York. At age 33, she was appointed the head of the Cancer Research Foundation. In 1964, she was appointed to the President’s Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke. She also became the first female president of the New York Cancer Society and the Co-founder of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
2020. American Society of Clinical Oncology.
