![]() ![]() Wright to the President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke. Wright became an associate professor of surgical research at New York University and director of cancer chemotherapy research at New York University Medical Center and its affiliated Bellevue and University hospitals. Jane Wright was appointed head of the Cancer Research Foundation, at the age of 33. Several patients who participated in the trials had some remission. In 1949, the two began testing a new chemical on human leukemias and cancers of the lymphatic system. Jane Wright would perform the patient trials. At Harlem Hospital her father had already re-directed the focus of foundation research to investigating anti-cancer chemicals. After six months she left the school position to join her father, director of the Cancer Research Foundation at Harlem Hospital.Ĭhemotherapy was still mostly experimental at that time. Wright was hired as a staff physician with the New York City Public Schools, and continued as a visiting physician at Harlem Hospital. ![]() After a six-month leave for the birth of her first child in 1948, she returned to complete her training at Harlem Hospital as chief resident. While completing a residency at Harlem Hospital from 1947 to 1948, she married David Jones, Jr., a Harvard Law School graduate. She interned at Bellevue Hospital from 1945 to 1946, serving nine months as an assistant resident in internal medicine. Jane Wright graduated with honors from New York Medical College in 1945. He also established the Cancer Research Center at Harlem Hospital. ![]() ![]() Louis Wright was the first African American doctor appointed to a staff position at a municipal hospital in New York City and, in 1929, became the city's first African American police surgeon. Her father was one of the first African American graduates of Harvard Medical School, and he set a high standard for his daughters. By 1967, she was the highest ranking African American woman in a United States medical institution.īorn in New York City in 1919, Jane Cooke Wright was the first of two daughters born to Corrine (Cooke) and Louis Tompkins Wright. Jane Wright analyzed a wide range of anti-cancer agents, explored the relationship between patient and tissue culture response, and developed new techniques for administering cancer chemotherapy. ![]()
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