William Prusoff

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1920 – 2011

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Who was William Prusoff?

William Herman Prusoff was a pharmacologist who was an early innovator in antiviral drugs, developing idoxuridine, the first antiviral agent approved by the FDA, in the 1950s, and co-developing stavudine, one of the earliest AIDS drugs, in the mid-1980s.

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Born
Jun 25, 1920
Brooklyn
Nationality
  • United States of America
Education
  • Columbia University
  • University of Miami
Died
Apr 3, 2011
New Haven

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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