Happy Retirement, Dr. Flesher!
Dr. James Flesher
In the 1970’s, Professor James W. Flesher and his colleagues in the Department of Pharmacology identified a new metabolic pathway in the field of chemical carcinogenesis. His groups showed that polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons could damage DNA, implicating them in cancer induction. During his career, Dr. Flesher has served on national and international committees on experimental therapeutics and oncogenesis, he has published numerous articles in leading journals and has received multiple federal grants. He now joins the rank of Professor Emeritus in the Department of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology at UK. For more details on Prof. Flesher’s theory of carcinogenesis, click here.
Photographs show Dr. Flesher and his family and friends during his retirement dinner at the Hilary J. Boone Faculty Center on July 16, 2010.
