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American oncologist
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Male
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Place of birth
Milford, Sussex County, Delaware, USA
Death
8 March 2006 (aged 93 years)
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Place of death
Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
Age
93 years
Education
Phillips Exeter Academy,
Awards
Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
(1972)
Leopold Griffuel Prize
(1970)
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Biography
Joseph Holland Burchenal (December 21, 1912 – March 8, 2006) was an American oncologist, and a winner of the 1972 Albert Lasker Award for Medical Research for his work on developing a chemotherapy for Burkitt's lymphoma.His research with George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion led to the creation of the leukemia treatment mercaptopurine.He worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and was a member of the presidential panel that initiated the U.S. federal government's War on Cancer.Burchenal died in Hanover, New Hampshire on March 8, 2006.He was 93 years old.
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