:Joseph H. Burchenal

{{short description|American oncologist}}

Joseph Holland Burchenal (December 21, 1912 – March 8, 2006) was an American oncologist, and a winner of the 1972 Albert Lasker Award for Medical Research for his work on developing a chemotherapy for Burkitt's lymphoma.Staff, ASCO. February 24, 2014 [http://www.cancerprogress.net/node/2071 Oncology Luminaries: Dr. Joseph Burchenal (1912-2006)] His research with George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion led to the creation of the leukemia treatment mercaptopurine.Katherine Bouton for the New York Times. January 29, 1989 [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/29/magazine/the-nobel-pair.html?pagewanted=all The Nobel Pair] He worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and was a member of the presidential panel that initiated the U.S. federal government's War on Cancer.{{cite book|last1=Mukherjee|first1=Siddhartha|title=The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer|ISBN=978-1439170915|date=2010|location=New York|page=184}} Burchenal died in Hanover, New Hampshire on March 8, 2006. He was 93 years old.Jeremy Pearce for the New York Times. March 16, 2006 [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/nyregion/16burchenal.html Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal, 93, Who Devised Cancer-Drug Therapy, Dies]