Monroe Eliot Wall

Monroe Eliot Wall (1916 – July 6, 2002) was an American chemist, who co-discovered, with Mansukh C. Wani, paclitaxel and camptothecin, two anti-cancer drugs considered standard in the treatment to fight ovarian, breast, lung and colon cancers.

[1] On May 27, 1987, Wall received an honorary doctorate from the faculty of pharmacy at Uppsala University, Sweden.

He completed his BS, MS, and PhD at Rutgers University.

That year, he started a research group at RTI International, where he remained for the duration of his career.

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