James F. Holland ’45

Jim was born in 1925 in Morristown, N.J., and attended Morristown High School. At Princeton he majored in chemistry and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.

 He was a captain in the Army Medical Corps in World War II during the occupation in Germany. Returning from Germany, he went to Francis Delafield Hospital, a new cancer-research center, where he saw one of his child patients with leukemia go into remission.

Jim developed complex clinical cancer trials while at the National Cancer Institute, making them a prototype for later research. He moved to Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, N.Y., in 1956. He received the Albert and Mary Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award in 1972.

In 1956 he married Jimmie Coker Holland, a founder in the field of psycho-oncology. In 1973, Jim moved to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where he held an endowed chair in neoplastic diseases.

Jim died March 22, 2018, at 92, shortly after Jimmie’s unexpected death. He is survived by his six children and nine grandchildren.