Oleh Hornykiewicz

Oleh Hornykiewicz (born 17 November 1926) is an Austrian biochemist.

Biography

Hornykiewicz was born in 1926 in Sykhiw, then in Poland (now Ukraine).^[1] In 1951, he received his M.D. degree from the University of Vienna and joined the faculty of his alma mater the same year and has worked there ever since. He also served for twenty years as chairman of the Institute of Biochemical Pharmacology. In 1967, he began a long association with the University of Toronto in Canada and, in 1992, he was named professor emeritus at that institution.^[2]

Awards

In 1979, Hornykiewicz was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine, jointly with Roger Wolcott Sperry and Arvid Carlsson, "for opening a new approach in the control of Parkinson's disease by L-Dopa."^[3]

References

1. ^ "The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography - Volume 4". http://www.sfn.org/skins/main/pdf/history_of_neuroscience/hon_vol_4/c7.pdf. 
2. ^ "The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research". http://google.com/search?q=cache:1efdFIcfS04J:www.michaeljfox.org/about_people_advisors_bio.cfm%3FID%3D14+Oleh+Hornykiewicz&cd=6&hl=iw&ct=clnk&gl=il.  retrieved: 26 October 2009
3. ^ The Wolf Prize in Medicine

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