Jerome Horwitz
Jerome Horwitz · Science & Medicine
Chemist who first synthesized AZT, later the first approved drug against HIV/AIDS.
1919, Detroit, Michigan, United States — 2012, Michigan, United States
United States
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Jerome Horwitz was an American chemist who first synthesized AZT (zidovudine) in 1964 while seeking anti-cancer agents; it was shelved until, two decades later, it became the first approved drug against HIV/AIDS. He also synthesized other early nucleoside analogs central to antiviral and cancer therapy. He was Jewish, and is listed among Jewish figures in biology.
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Chemist who first synthesized AZT, later the first approved drug against HIV/AIDS.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
