Angela Hartley Brodie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Angela Hartley Brodie

British pharmacologist and cancer researcher

Date of Birth: 28-Sep-1934

Place of Birth: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 07-Jun-2017

Profession: university teacher, pharmacologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Angela Hartley Brodie

  • Angela Hartley Brodie (28 September 1934 – 7 June 2017) was a British biochemist who pioneered development of steroidal aromatase inhibitors in cancer research.
  • Born in Greater Manchester, Brodie studied chemical pathology to a doctoral level in Sheffield and was awarded a fellowship sponsored by National Institutes of Health.
  • After 17 years of working in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts on oral contraceptives with Harry Brodie, whom she married, she switched focus to the effects of the oestrogen-producing enzyme, aromatase, on breast cancer. Brodie managed to get an aromatase inhibitor into a limited clinical trial in breast cancer patients in London, which had such a profound effect that it led to Novartis-sponsored trials, the development of formestane, the first aromatase inhibitor, eventually marketed in 1994.
  • Brodie's work has been hailed "as among the most important contributions to cancer cure."

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