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    Sidney Farber (September 30, 1903 – March 30, 1973) was an American pediatric pathologist. He is regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy for his...
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  • President/CEO of Dana–Farber Cancer Institute/Jimmy Fund. In 2015, Forbes listed the charity as the 37th biggest in the U.S. 1947: Sidney Farber, MD, founded the...
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  • Dancing with the Stars Sidney Farber (1903–1973), "father" of modern chemotherapy Stacey Farber (born 1987), Canadian actress Zulima Farber (born 1944), former...
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  • fewer than one per million. It is named for Sidney Farber. RESERVED, INSERM US14-- ALL RIGHTS. "Orphanet: Farber disease". www.orpha.net. Retrieved 17 April...
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    After his work on folic acid and with considerable input from Dr. Sidney Farber, he developed the important anti-cancer drug methotrexate – one of the...
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    on the name jimmies originates from Dr. Sidney Farber and Edward Brigham. Dr. Farber co-founded the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, as well as...
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    diseases as opposed to a single disease. By 1947, Boston pathologist Sidney Farber believed from past experiments that aminopterin, a folic acid mimic...
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    after World War II, a second approach to drug therapy of cancer began. Sidney Farber, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School, studied the effects of folic...
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  • Wilson Dr. Robert Weinberg John Bailar Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee Dr. Sidney Farber Dr. Susan Love Dr. Suzanne Cole Dr. Todd Golub Dr. Vincent DeVita Edward...
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    arteriosus" in 1938, ushering in the era of modern pediatric cardiac surgery. Sidney Farber, pediatric pathologist, requested Yellapragada Subbarow (a friend and...
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    Thereby, it acts as anticytokine. In 1947, a team of researchers led by Sidney Farber showed aminopterin, a chemical analogue of folic acid developed by Yellapragada...
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  • July 1928, she married Sidney Farber, (died 1973) the founder of the Children's Cancer Research Foundation (now the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute) in Boston...
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  • most common cause of death after heart disease in the United States. Sidney Farber induced temporary remission in pediatric leukemia using antifolates...
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    antifolate aminopterin, which was used to treat childhood leukemia by Sidney Farber in 1948. In the 1950s and 1960s, scientists began to discover the biochemical...
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    established, due to deletions in the p13 band on chromosome 11. Sidney Farber, founder of Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, and his colleagues achieved the first...
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    Sidney Farber did pioneering work in chemotherapy....
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    Hans-Johann Färber (born 20 April 1947) is a German rower who competed for West Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics, 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976...
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    the Variety Children's Charity of New England. In 1947, Sidney Farber founded the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The following year he launched...
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    quantities. Discovered by Yellapragada Subbarow, the drug was first used by Sidney Farber in 1947 to induce remissions among children with leukemia. Aminopterin...
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  • Fanconi anemia – Guido Fanconi Fanconi syndrome – Guido Fanconi Farber disease – Sidney Farber Felty's syndrome – Augustus Roi Felty Fitz-Hugh–Curtis syndrome...
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  • Sidney Farber is regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy....
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  • DeBakey, Charles Huggins 1964 Nathan S. Kline 1965 Albert B. Sabin 1966 Sidney Farber 1967 Robert Allan Phillips 1968 John Heysham Gibbon 1969 George C. Cotzias...
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  • about whether this was more harmful than beneficial to the patient. Sidney Farber, a Harvard physician and cancer researcher, coined the term total care...
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  • 1927, pediatrician, known as the "father of pediatric hematology" Sidney Farber, 1927, pediatric pathologist who is regarded as the father of modern...
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    before moving to Harvard Medical School to start his own lab at the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute. He credits Ruth Sager for giving him his job there...
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  • the newly founded Children's Hospital: Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. A patient of founder Dr. Sidney Farber, Gustafson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's...
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  • effect). Sidney Farber (1903–1973), American pediatric pathologist, regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy, and after whom the Dana–Farber Cancer...
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    suffragist, and reformer Willis Carrier, inventor of modern air conditioning Sidney Farber, considered the father of modern chemotherapy Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein...
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  • describe what is now known as the Brown-Séquard syndrome. In June 1948, Sidney Farber reported promising results in treatment of early childhood leukemia...
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  • chemotherapy drug mustine used to treat cancer 1947  – American Dr. Sidney Farber induces brief remission in a patient with leukaemia with the antifolate...
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