Sidney Udenfriend
Sidney Udenfriend · Science & Medicine
Biochemist who advanced neurochemistry and invented the fluorescence assay for serotonin
1918, New York City, United States — 1999, United States
United States
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Udenfriend, an American biochemist from a Jewish family in New York, advanced neurochemistry and pharmacology, notably by inventing the spectrophotofluorometric assay that made it possible to measure serotonin and other amines sensitively in tissue. As founding director of the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, he shaped a generation of biomedical research. His fluorescence methods remain widely used.
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Biochemist who advanced neurochemistry and invented the fluorescence assay for serotonin
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