Birthdate: September 22, 1901
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada
Died: January 12, 1997
Charles Brenton Huggins, a Canadian-American surgeon and physiologist, is renowned for his pioneering research on prostate function, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. As a founding faculty member of the University of Chicago Medical School, he devoted his career to studying the influence of sex hormones on prostate function, which led to the development of hormone therapies for prostate cancer. Huggins was honored with the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1966 for this significant contribution. Additionally, he explored the relationship between hormones and breast cancer, established an animal model for studying breast cancer, and introduced widely used “chromogenic substrates” for biochemical analyses. Huggins continued his groundbreaking research well into his later years, leaving a lasting impact on the field of oncology.
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