Saturday, February 5, 2011

Yellapragada Subbarao invented methotrexate


Do u know that an Indian invented [1] Methotrexate [2] "tetracycline" [3] Hetrazan [antifilarial]....
Yellapragada Subbarao (January 12,1895-August 9 1948) was born in a very poor family in Bhimavaram of the Old Madras.He could eventually matriculate in his third attempt.In medical college,he was awarded the lesser LMS certificate and not the full MBBS degree.He then took up a job as Lecturer in Anatomy at Dr. Lakshmipathi's Ayurvedic College at Madras.
**1 stly .... Anatomy[non-clinic] and2nd.... a ayurvedi college.
A chance meeting with an American doctor, changed his mind.He arrived in Boston on October 26.
His medical degree would not qualify for a scholarship or get him an internship in Boston Hospitals. He made up by taking on various odd jobs.He developed the important anti-cancer drug Methotrexate, still in widespread clinical use today, and the drug Hetrazan which was used by WHO against filariasis. Under Subbarao, Benjamin Duggar made his discovery of the world's first tetracycline antibiotic, Aureomycin, in 1945
A new fungus was named in his honor: Subbaromyces splendens by American Cynamid.Subbarao remained an alien in america without a green card all his life. So he was an INDIAn


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