Article ID: CBB851153384

Imperial Chemical Industries and Craig Jordan, “the First Tamoxifen Consultant,” 1960s–1990s (2020)

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This paper examines the relationship between Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), the company that discovered tamoxifen, and Dr Craig Jordan, who played a major part in its success as a breast cancer drug, and who worked as a consultant for the company, but without ever being paid a consultancy fee. Instead, ICI funded junior staff working in his laboratory on topics of his choice. They later paid his expenses as an expert witness in patent-litigation cases, as a result of which the US became a major lucrative market for tamoxifen, and ICI’s other anti-cancer drugs. This case study illustrates that, like consultants, drugs play an important part at the boundary between the academic and industrial spheres. However, even if it is blurred, the boundary remains. Owing to the secrecy that often surrounds industrial research, this boundary may lead to a different understanding of what constitutes innovation, and to different narratives with regard to respective contributions.

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Article Viviane Quirke; Peter Reed (2020) Chemistry, Consultants, and Companies, c. 1850–2000: Introduction. Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 207-213). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Quirke, Viviane
Henk Vermande
Peter Mansoor
Veletanlić, Emina
Robertson, Thomas
Hentenryk, G. Kurgan-van
Concepts
Chemical industry
Chemistry
Science and society
Pharmaceutical industry
Science and industry
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century, late
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
Places
France
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Netherlands
Spain
Institutions
Imperial Chemical Industries
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
IG Farben
University of California, Berkeley
Solvay Conferences
Du Pont Company
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