Word: wurtman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case in point, Dr. Richard J. Wurtman, an MIT professor who serves as professor of neuroendocrine regulations at the joint Harvard-MIT Health Services and Technology Division, is the co-founder and a director and adviser of Interneuron Pharmaceuticals...
...Wurtman says he and other MIT professors discovered in 1971 an amino acid called which small doses, secretes the hormone serotonin and thereby induces sleep. He says he thought this would be a good cure for insomnia and widely published the results...
...Wurtman says that since MIT did not patent the drug, no one else was allowed to do so, since only inventors can patent a product. A consequence of the lack of a patent, Wurtman says, was that no one could perform safety studies on the amino acid...
...Wurtman says health food stores began selling tryptophan as a nutritional supplement and sold it for 15 years without approval from the Food and Drug Administration...