Word: florey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lasker Foundation, formed in 1942, reflects the varied Lasker interests: fellowships for graduate students working with Sir Howard Florey, co-discoverer of penicillin (he picks the students); money for cancer research directed by the University of Chicago's Dr. Charles B. Huggins (his projects); research in hardening of the arteries, headed by Dr. Forrest Kendall at Manhattan's Goldwater Hospital...
...Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin, was awarded one-third of the $30,000 Nobel Prize in medicine; sharing it with him were two less publicized British penicillinists-Sir Howard Walter Florey, organizer of the research team which found practical means of extracting the capricious drug, and Dr. Ernst Boris Chain, the team's chief research genius...
...Infections. Some of the first infections against which Oxford's Drs. Mary Ethel Florey and Howard Walter Florey tried penicillin before introducing it as a drug (TIME, May 15) were conjunctivitis, infected eyelids, infected tear sacs. They used a penicillin salve, cleared up cases which had lasted for years...
...Howard Walter Florey, thin-lipped, bespectacled, Australian-born half of the famed Florey-Fleming penicillin team, after twelve days at Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton was caught by a reporter, ejaculated: "It is not my practice to be interviewed by the press. I'd much rather be let alone...
...sent $1,000 to. Dr. Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, through TIME [May 29]. Perhaps this noble gesture will attract the attention of the chemical companies who will commercialize and market this "wonder drug" and make them realize that it would be only fair to let Drs. Fleming & Florey share their great profits...