Pedro Cuatrecasas
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Birth and education
Pedro Cuatrecasas was born in 1936 in Madrid, Spain.[2] He completed his A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1958. He completed his M.D. from Washington 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 medicines include: zidovudine (AZT, AIDS), acyclovir (Zovirax, anti-herpes), permethrin (Rid, head and body lice), bupropion (Wellbutrin, antidepressant), colfosceril palmitate (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."[3]
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- 1936 births
- Spanish emigrants to the United States
- American people of Spanish descent
- American biochemists
- Spanish biochemists
- Washington University in St. Louis alumni
- University of California, San Diego alumni
- Wolf Prize in Medicine laureates
- Living people
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
