Charles Brenton Huggins
Charles Brenton Huggins (born September 22, 1901 in Halifax , Canada , † January 12, 1997 in Chicago , USA ) was a Canadian-American surgeon , cancer researcher and Nobel Prize winner . He was a specialist in prostate cancer and discovered in 1941 that hormones could influence its development. This enabled the first systematic therapy options (in addition to castration, estrogen therapy) against this type of cancer and was at the same time the first evidence of successful chemotherapy against cancer.
Life
Huggins graduated from Acadia University with a bachelor's degree in 1940 and medicine from Harvard University with an MD in 1924. He received his specialist training in surgery with Frederick A. Coller at the University of Michigan Hospital, where he became an instructor in surgery in 1926. From 1927 he was an instructor, from 1929 assistant professor, from 1933 associate professor and from 1936 professor of surgery at the University of Chicago . From 1951 he was director of the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago and from 1962 William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor.
In 1927 he married Margaret Wellman and had a son and a daughter.
Honors and memberships
From 1948 to 1949 he was president of the American Association for Cancer Research .
In 1947 he was awarded the Amory Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , of which he was elected in 1949. In 1963 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research and in 1966 both the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his "discoveries in the treatment of prostate cancer hormones ". The American Philosophical Society awarded him the Benjamin Franklin Medal in 1985 , the Charles L. Meyer Prize (1943), the gold medal of the American Medical Association (twice, in 1936 and 1940), the American Cancer Society (1953) and the Rudolf Virchow Society (1964), the Cameron Prize from the University of Edinburgh and the Hunter Award from the American Therapeutic Society. In 2003 he was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Huggins received several honorary doctorates ( Yale University , Acadia University , Washington University, Leeds , Aberdeen , Bologna ). He was an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh .
literature
- Charles B. Huggins , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 24/1997 from June 2, 1997, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Gisela Baumgart: Huggins, Charles Brenton. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 635.
Web links
- Information from the Nobel Foundation on the awarding of the 1966 award to Charles Brenton Huggins
Individual evidence
- ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 22, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huggins, Charles Brenton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Huggins, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian-American surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halifax , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1997 |
| Place of death | Chicago , USA |