Tag: Lifesaving
Developing Tamoxifen: Dora Richardson’s Underground Research for Saving Lives
In the 1970s, while working at ICI, Dora Richardson, along with her boss Arthur Walpole, discovered the potential of tamoxifen as a treatment for advanced breast cancer. Despite initial setbacks and ICI's reluctance to...
The Legacy of the Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen: A Groundbreaking Breast Cancer Treatment
In the early 1960s, chemist Dora Richardson synthesized a chemical compound that became one of the most important drugs to treat breast cancer: tamoxifen. Although her name is on the original patent, until recently,...