Kenneth Harrap

Professor
Kenneth Harrap
CBE CChem FRSC
Born Kenneth Reginald Harrap
(1931-11-20)20 November 1931
Died 9 February 2017(2017-02-09) (aged 85)
Nationality United Kingdom
Occupation Oncological biochemist
Employer Institute of Cancer Research

Professor Kenneth Reginald Harrap CBE CChem FRSC (1931-2017) was a British oncological biochemist.

Harrap was born on 20 November 1931.[1]

He graduated with a BSc in Chemistry, then worked for a while as an analytical chemist at Hopkins & Williams.[1] In 1956 he moved to the Institute of Cancer Research's Chester Beatty Research Institute in London.[1][2] He was promoted to Head of the Department of Applied Biochemistry in 1970, Head of the Department of Biochemical Pharmacology in 1977, Chairman of the Drug Development Section in 1982, and Director of the CRC's Centre for Cancer Therapeutics in 1994, becoming Emeritus upon retirement in 1997,[2] at which time he also took up a partnership and consultancy role with Weston and Harrap Consulting.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1998 New Year Honours.[3]

He died on 9 February 2017.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "The Drug Discoverer - A pioneer of cancer drug discovery – Professor Ken Harrap 1931–2017 - The Institute of Cancer Research, London". Institute of Cancer Research. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  2. 1 2 Daphne Christie; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2007), The Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts as Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer, Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, ISBN 978-0-85484-112-7 , Wikidata Q29581749
  3. ↑ "No. 54993". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1997. pp. 1–28.


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