About Kurt Hellmann
Lived 1922 – 2013 (aged 90). Kurt Hellmann was a pharmacologist.
Kurt Hellmann (12 May 1922 – 2 April 2013) was a Bavarian clinical pharmacologist best known for his discovery of the biologic activity of two important drugs: Razoxane and Dexrazoxane.
Career From 1962 until 1987, Hellmann served the Imperial Cancer Research Fund London as founding director of its Department of Cancer Chemotherapy. After World War II service as an engineer, he turned his studies to chemistry at Oxford, receiving a Pharmacology Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1953, a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1958, and a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1964. During his studies, in 1959, he met his future wife, Jane, wedding her in 1961.
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Kurt Hellmann was born on 12 May 1922.
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Kurt Hellmann died on 2 April 2013.
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