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John Vane was a British pharmacologist who shared the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on hormone-like substances known as prostaglandins. He discovered that aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs work by inhibiting the synthesis of prostaglandins, thereby...
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Aspirin-prostaglandin mechanism discovery reshaped pharmacology; Nobel-winning and clinically important.
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George Hitchings was an American pharmacologist who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Gertrude Elion and James Black for innovations in rational drug design. Over a four-decade collaboration with Elion at Burroughs Wellcome (now GlaxoSmithKline), Hitchings developed drugs ta...
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Rational drug design pioneer behind major therapies; Nobel-winning pharmacology reputation.
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