Top 20 Pharmacologist celebrities in United States
Here is the latest list of the world's top 20 Pharmacologist celebrities [Updated February 26, 2021].
Eli Lilly was born
on July 8, 1838
in Baltimore, United States.
He pioneered the idea of drug prescriptions and was one of the first pharmacists to only give addictive or dangerous medications to people who had first consulted with a physician.
Louis Ignarro was born
on May 31, 1941
in United States.
He taught for over a decade at Tulane University's medical school and founded an organization called the Nitric Oxide Society.
Dennis McKenna was born
on December 17, 1950
in United States.
His research played a key role in the Aveda Corporation's development of naturally-derived skin care products.
Robert Lefkowitz was born
on April 15, 1943
in United States.
American physician-scientist who is best known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors. He has spent the majority of his career as an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
He received the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work with G protein-coupled receptors.
Gertrude B. Elion was born
on January 23, 1918
in New York City, United States.
Pioneer pharmacologist who was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for developing new drugs leukemia, gout, and malaria among others. Gertrude B. Elion became the first woman to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1991.
Gertrude B. Elion's methods would be used to play a key role in the development of the AIDS medication AZT and in 1991 she became the first woman to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Warren Winkelstein was born
on July 1, 1922
in United States.
In the 1980s and thereafter, he focused his work mainly on HIV and the AIDS pandemic and concluded that Aids was related to drug use, and notion that has since been proven false.
David E. Nichols was born
on December 23, 1944
in United States.
He was the Robert C. and Charlotte P. Anderson Distinguished Chair in Pharmacology at Purdue University.
Harold Saxton Burr was born
on April 18, 1889
in United States.
He conducted research on cancer cells that form in the nervous system.
Robert Nason Beck was born
on March 26, 1928
in United States.
He was the director at the Argonne Cancer Research Hospital in 1957.
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