Dr. Allan H. Conney (1930-2013) was a worldrenowned pharmacologist and cancer researcher
who made seminal discoveries in the molecular
mechanisms of enzyme induction, drug metabolism,
carcinogen activation, and cancer prevention.
Conney was born in Chicago on March 23, 1930.
He received his B.S. in pharmacy (1952) and his
M.S. (1954) and Ph.D. (1956) in oncology from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Recognized with the prestigious GHA Clowes Award from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and later elected into the National Academy of
Sciences (USA), Conney spent decades researching the effects of environmental
chemicals that act as triggers in the formation of cancer. He published 539 articles
of original work in scientific literature and was featured in journals such as
Cancer Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (PNAS),
Nature, and Science. He served as President of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and served on editorial boards of the
PNAS, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal
of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and Molecular Pharmacology.
Well-known for his pioneering research into the anticancer properties of exercise
and caffeine in relation to skin cancer, and as an advocate for individualized cancer
prevention and treatment, Conney was recognized for his achievements with the
Dewitt S. Goodman Memorial Award from the AACR, the Arnold J. Lehman
Award from the Society of Toxicology, and the IBM-Princess Takamatsu Cancer
Research Fund Lecturer Award and supported by an Outstanding Investigator
Award from the National Cancer Institute. He established the Department of
Chemical Biology in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy and founded the
Laboratory for Cancer Research at Rutgers University. He received international
recognition for his research by having a laboratory named in his honor —
the Allan H. Conney Laboratory for Anticancer Research at Guangdong University
of Technology in Guangzhou, China.
He was among the seven most cited scientists in the world in the field of
pharmacology from 1965 to 1978, according to the Science Citation Index.
During the same period, Conney was among the top 40 most
cited scientists in all fields of science.
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