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Screenplay Scientific Advisor P. Harry Jellinck: P. Harry Jellinck obtained his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1948 and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of London (1952 and 1954). As a graduate student for a Ph.D. in the 1950s, Jellinck worked directly under Sir Charles Dodds (creator of DES) at the Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry, Middlesex Hospital, London. After two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow (National Research Council) at McGill University and three years as a lecturer at two medical schools in London, Jellinck returned to Canada to join Dr. R.L. Noble at the newly established Cancer Research Centre, University of British Columbia. Jellinck was promoted to Full Professor before moving in 1967 to Queen's University as Head of the Department of Biochemistry. He stepped down from this position in 1978 and became Emeritus in 1993. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Rockefeller University, since his first sabbatical in New York in 1978. Jellinck has published three textbooks, over 100 scientific papers, and is still active in research, albeit at a reduced pace.
Script Consultant Sir Ralph Dodds: Sir Ralph Dodds – only son of professor Sir (Edward) Charles Dodds (creator of DES) – was born in March 1928. He was at school in London and, from 1941 to 1946, at Winchester. He has vivid memories of the buildup of American soldiers on every highway and byway in the months to 6 June 1944 – when, almost overnight, they vanished – to Normandy. Conscripted into the army in May 1946, he went on to Sandhurst (Britain’s West Point) and served as an officer in the Middle and Far East, Germany and England until he resigned his commission in 1958. Married to Marion in 1954, and with two daughters, Ralph worked as an Insurance Broker in the City of London until retirement in 1990. Still living in London with Marion, they enjoy the frequent company of their daughters and four grandchildren – all now grown up. It is only with Caitlin McCarthy's interest and research for the film WONDER DRUG that Ralph has recalled many small details from his childhood of the original people and places involved in the original research on Diethylstilbestrol (known in the UK as Stilbestrol).
