Ján Vilček
Ján Vilček · Science & Medicine
Biomedical scientist whose interferon and anti-TNF research led to the arthritis drug Remicade.
1933, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Slovakia · United States
Ján Vilček is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biomedical scientist whose interferon and anti-TNF research led to the arthritis drug Remicade.
Ján Vilček is a biomedical scientist whose research on interferons and on tumour necrosis factor led to the anti-TNF antibody that became the arthritis and Crohn's-disease drug Remicade (infliximab). Royalties from that work funded major philanthropy for science and the arts. He is Jewish, a Holocaust survivor who was hidden as a child in wartime Slovakia before emigrating to the United States.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Biomedical scientist whose interferon and anti-TNF research led to the arthritis drug Remicade.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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