Allan H. Conney

Allan H. Conney, a world-renowned pharmacologist and cancer researcher at Rutgers University Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy whose decades of research demonstrated that such common sense activities as drinking green tea and getting more exercise may help prevent the spread of cancer, died suddenly on September 10. He was 83. Conney, the William M. and Myrle W. Garbe Professor of Cancer and Leukemia Research and Director of the Susan Lehman Cullman Laboratory for Cancer Research, had a long and distinguished record of research, teaching and service and in recent years made important discoveries on how caffeine, exercise and liposuction inhibit skin cancer.