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Pharmacologist V. Craig Jordan, Ph.D., a professor of Breast Medical Oncology and Molecular and Cellular Oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center who discovered Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMs) and developed breakthrough breast cancer treatments, died June 9, 2024, at his home in Houston. He was 76 years old.

Known as the “father of tamoxifen,” Jordan showed that the drug, originally created to...