- Pedro Cuatrecasas
Pedro Cuatrecasas (
1936 ) is an Americanbiochemist and an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology & Medicine at theUniversity of California, San Diego . [ [http://pharmacology.ucsd.edu/Research_Faculty/pcuatrecasas.asp Pedro Cuatrecasas at the University of California, San Diego] ]Birth and education
Pedro Cuatrecasas was born in 1936 in
Madrid ,Spain . He completed his A.B. fromWashington University in St. Louis in 1958. After completing his undergraduate, he completed his M.D. from the same university in 1962.Research
Pedro Cuatrecasas is known for the invention and development of affinity chromatography, a process utilized within the Aethlon HemopurifierTM. He was involved in the discovery, development and marketing registration of more than forty medicines. Some of those medicins include: zidovudine (AZT, AIDS), acyclovir (Zovirax, anti-herpes), permethrin (Rid, head and body lice), bupropion (Wellbutrin, antidepressant), calsfosceril (Exosurf, infant acute respiratory distress), remifentanil (Ultiva, analgesic/anesthetic), sumatriptan (Imigran, migraine), salmeterol (Serement, asthma), tacrine (Cognex, Alzheimers), gabapentin (Neurontin, epilepsy and neuropathic pain), troglitazone (Rezulin, diabetes), and atorvastatin (Lipitor, cholesterol lowering).
In 1987 Pedro Cuatrecasas won the
Wolf Prize in Medicine in 1987 along with Meir Wilchek "for the invention and development of affinity chromatography and its applications to biomedical sciences." [ [http://www.wolffund.org.il/cat.asp?id=24&cat_title=MEDICINE The Wolf Prize in Medicine] ]References
External links
* [http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Search&link2=Search%20Results&AuthLastName=Cuatrecasas&AuthFirstName=Puedro%20&AuthMiddleName=&AuthMailnstName=&CountryID=-1&DisciplineID=0&id=1911 CV of Pedro Cuatrecasas]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9B0DE6DF1738F933A15752C0A9619482602 Researchers Share Prize in Medicine]
* [http://www.wolffund.org.il/full.asp?id=91 The Wolf Prize in Medicine in 1987 (detail)]
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