{{Short description|American chemist}} {{Infobox person |name=Monroe Eliot Wall |image=File:RTI scientists.jpg |caption=Monroe Wall (right) and Mansukh C. Wani |birth_date=1916 |birth_place=Newark, New Jersey |death_date=July 6, 2002 |death_place=Chapel Hill, North Carolina |alma_mater=Rutgers University (BS, MS, PhD) |occupation=Chemist |employer=USDA<br/>Research Triangle Institute }} '''Monroe Eliot Wall''' (1916 &ndash; July 6, 2002) was an American chemist, who co-discovered, with Mansukh C. Wani, paclitaxel and camptothecin, two anti-cancer drugs considered standard in the treatment to fight ovarian, breast, lung and colon cancers.<ref>{{cite news |title= Monroe Wall, 85, Discoverer Of Drugs That Fight Cancer|author= O’Connor, Anahad |newspaper=The New York Times |date= July 11, 2002 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/11/us/monroe-wall-85-discoverer-of-drugs-that-fight-cancer.html | access-date=May 13, 2010}}</ref> On May 27, 1987, Wall received an honorary doctorate from the faculty of pharmacy at Uppsala University, Sweden.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/traditions/prizes/honorary-doctorates/pharmacy/ |title=Honorary Doctors of the Faculty of Pharmacy |publisher=Uppsala University}}</ref>

Wall was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1916. He completed his BS, MS, and PhD at Rutgers University. He joined the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1941 and worked at the USDA until 1960. That year, he started a research group at RTI International, where he remained for the duration of his career.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Wani |first1= Mansukh C. |date= December 15, 2002 |title= In Memoriam: Monroe E. Wall (1916–2002) |journal= Cancer Research |volume=62 |pages=7377 |url=http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/full/62/24/7377 |issue=24}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://dctd.cancer.gov/programs/dtp Monroe E. Wall, National Cancer Institute]

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