Exhibit 24.1
                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

                  KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose
signature appears below constitutes and appoints Sterling K. Ainsworth and
Gordon H. Link, Jr., and each of them, his or her attorneys-in-fact, with full
power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign the
Annual Report on Form 10-K for NaPro BioTherapeutics, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), for its year ended December 31, 1998, and all
amendments thereto, and a registration statement to be filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") on Form S-8 in connection with the
issuance and sale by the Company of shares of the Company's Common Stock, par
value $.0075 per share ("Common Stock"), and all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) thereto, and to file each, with all exhibits thereto,
and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission; and to sign
all documents in connection with the qualification and sale of the Common Stock
with Blue Sky authorities; granting unto said attorneys-in-fact full power and
authority to perform any other act on behalf of the undersigned required to be
done in the premises, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.


Date:   March 30, 1999                             /s/Sterling K. Ainsworth   
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                                                   Sterling K. Ainsworth


Date:   March 30, 1999                             /s/Leonard P. Shaykin      
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                                                   Leonard P. Shaykin


Date:    March __, 1999                                                        
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                                                   Gordon H. Link, Jr.


Date:   March 30, 1999                             /s/Patricia A. Pilia         
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                                                   Patricia A. Pilia


Date:   March 30, 1999                             /s/Arthur H. Hayes, Jr.      
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                                                   Arthur H. Hayes, Jr.


Date:   March 30, 1999                             /s/Mark B. Hacken            
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                                                   Mark B. Hacken


Date:   March 30, 1999                             /s/Stanley Knowlton      
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                                                   Stanley Knowlton


Date:   March 29, 1999                             /s/Seth Rudnick
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                                                   Seth Rudnick


Date:  March __, 1999                                                           
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                                                   Robert L. Poley