A Toast to Ted

C. Todd Reichart

Published March 25, 2016

Edward C. “Ted” Taylor

Denise Applewhite/Office of Communications

Funding just became easier for doctoral students in the chemistry department, thanks to professor emeritus Edward C. “Ted” Taylor. With royalties from a top-selling cancer drug, Alimta, he invented for Eli Lilly & Co., Taylor has endowed fellowships for third-year chemistry Ph.D. students — usually about 30 students per year.

“That’s when they ought to be completely free of other concerns so they can devote themselves totally to their research,” says the 92-year-old Taylor. His work already has made a crucial difference to scientists at Princeton: The University’s Alimta royalties paid for the department’s quarter-billion-dollar new home, Frick Chemistry Laboratory, which opened in 2010.

Published in the April 6, 2016, Issue

1 Response

Christina Bodurow *84

8 Years Ago

Ted Taylor’s Gift

Re “A Toast to Ted” (feature, April 6): As a mentee of Ted Taylor during my graduate studies and an Eli Lilly and Co. employee for many years, I would like to reinforce how proud his students, mentees, and Lilly colleagues are of this amazing legacy Ted has established for Princeton chemistry. Thank you, Ted!