September 8, 2006

Florida State Wins Right to Spend Money From Chemistry Professor's Lab Account

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

Florida State University has prevailed in its dispute with a chemistry professor who was once to be the major benefactor for a new chemistry building.

The professor, Robert A. Holton, is the inventor of the anticancer drug Taxol, which has brought more than $200-million to the university.

Mr. Holton had gone to court in Tallahassee, hoping that a judge would grant his request that the university return $29.5-million that he had pledged for the building, a sum that included

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