William H. Fishman
William H. Fishman | |
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| Born | March 2, 1914 |
| Died | January 25, 2001 (aged 86) |
| Education | Minnedosa Collegiate (1931), University of Saskatchewan (BSc, 1935), University of Toronto (PhD, 1939) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry, oncology |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh, Weill Cornell Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Tufts University |
William Harold Fishman (March 2, 1914 – January 25, 2001) was a Canadian-American cancer researcher who taught at Tufts University from 1948 until his retirement in 1975. In 1976, with a $180,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute, he co-founded the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation (since renamed the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute) with his wife, Lillian. He was also the founding editor-in-chief of Tumor Biology, serving in this role from 1980 to 1983.