A Springfield High School and Wittenberg University graduate whose research transformed the treatment of breast cancer and saved and prolonged the lives of women afflicted by it died Sunday in Cincinnati.
Elwood Jensen was 92.
Known as the “Father of the Nuclear Receptor Field,” Jensen was one of three researchers to share the 2004 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, what some call the American Nobel Prize.
The University of Cincinnati, where Jensen was a distinguished professor of cancer biology, noted that just one other of its graduates had won the honor, Albert Sabin, who developed a vaccine for polio.
“Some have estimated that his work annually saves or prolongs the lives of more than 100,000 women,” the university said in announcing his death.
A 1936 graduate of Springfield High School, Jensen was honored in 2008 as one of the Springfield City Schools Alumni of Distinction and he made periodic visits and lectures at Wittenberg University, one of five institutions to award him an honorary doctorate.
A 1940 graduate of Wittenberg, he went on to earn a Ph.D in organic chemistry from the University of Chicago, where he enjoyed a long career as a teacher and researcher. His interest in studying hormones began during 1946, when he spent a year as a Guggenheim Fellow at the Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich.
After his 1990 retirement from the University of Chicago, Jens also taught at Cornell, the University of Hamburg and the Karolinksa Institute in Stockholm and did research at the National Institutes of Health.
In 2003, the University of Cincinnati honored him by organizing the Jensen Symposium on Nuclear Receptors and Endocrine Disorders, which drew more than 300 top researchers from around the world.
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