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Bernard Brodie

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Bernard Brodie · Science & Medicine

What

Pharmacologist widely regarded as the father of modern drug metabolism research.

When

1907, Liverpool, England — 1989, United States

Where

England · Canada · United States

Biography

Bernard Brodie is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Pharmacologist widely regarded as the father of modern drug metabolism research.

How & why

Brodie, a Jewish pharmacologist born in Liverpool and raised in Canada, is widely called the father of modern drug metabolism. At the U.S. National Institutes of Health he pioneered methods to measure drugs and their breakdown products in the body, helping to found the discipline of clinical pharmacology.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology

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Pharmacologist widely regarded as the father of modern drug metabolism research.

1907

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology