Volume 30. 'The Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts as Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer'

Series consists of papers, correspondence, photographs, cassette tapes and digital material related to the seminar on "The Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts as Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 4 April 2006. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 30 of the Witness Seminar series, D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey (editors), The Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts as Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2007).

The participants for the seminar were; Professor Paul Andrews; Professor Kenneth Bagshawe; Dr Penelope Brock; Professor Sir Kenneth Calman; Professor Hilary Calvert; Professor David Grahame-Smith; Professor Richard Gralla; Professor Kenneth Harrap; Dr James Hoeschele; Professor Ian Judson; Wesley Miner; Professor Robert Naylor; Brenda Reynolds; Dr John Rudd; Dr Gareth Sanger; Dr Tilli Tansey; Dr David Tattersall; Professor Andrew Thomson; Professor Robert Williams; and Dr Eve Wiltshaw.

The editors of the published transcript were D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey with an introduction by Matti Aapro.

The meeting advisers and organisers were Professor Paul Andrews, Dr Tony Woods and Dr Daphne Christie.

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Others present at the meeting included; Dr Jeffrey Aronson; Dr Chris Barnard; Dr Barry Murrer; Dr Mark Walport; Julie Wenn; Dr Lise Wilkinson; and Dr Tony Woods.

Apologies sent by; Professor Matti Aapro; Professor Richard Begent; Professor Peter Blower; Professor Sir Christopher Booth; Dr Michael Cleare; Professor Derek Crowther; Professor David Cunningham; Dr Mike Davies; Professor Adrian Harris; Dr Trevor Hince; Dr Duncan Jodrell; Professor Lloyd Kelland; Professor David Kerr; Professor Gordon McVie; Professor Pat Price; Dr Jon Pritchard; Dr John Reynolds; Professor Michael Richards; Dr Vicky Robinson; Dr Tim Root; Professor Barnett Rosenberg; Professor Peter Sadler; Professor John Smyth; and Professor Mike Stratton.

Digital material includes recordings, papers and photographs relating to the seminar and can be found under Audio and Digital Material.

2005-2007

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