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About Mansukh C. Wani
- Professor Mansukh C.
- Wani, Ph.D.
- is a principal scientist (emeritus) at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina.
- He is co-discoverer of Taxol and camptothecin, two anti-cancer drugs considered standard in the treatment to fight ovarian, breast, lung and colon cancers.
- In 2000, Dr.
- Wani received an award for applied research in medicine, the Charles F.
- Kettering Prize, from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation.Dr.
- Wani was born in Nandurbar, Maharashtra, India.
- He attended the University of Bombay, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1947 (in chemistry) and a master's in 1950 (in organic chemistry).
- He moved to the United States in 1958, and received his PhD from Indiana University Bloomington in 1962, when he joined Research Triangle Institute.
- He currently lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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