Yellapragada Subbarow
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Yellapragada Subbarao was an Indian American biochemist who discovered the function of adenosine triphosphate as an energy source in the cell, developed methotrexate for the treatment of cancer, and l
Commemorative postage stamp celebrating Subbarow's birth centenary
Sidney Farber
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Sidney Farber was an American pediatric pathologist at Boston Children's Hospital. He is regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy for his work using folic acid antagonists to combat leukemia, whi
Yellapragada Subbarow
…on work by Lucy Wills to isolate folic acid as a protective agent against anemia. After his work on folic acid and with considerable input from Dr. Sidney Farber, he developed the important anti-cancer drug methotrexate – one of the first cancer chemotherapy agents and still in widespread clinical use. Subbarao…
Farber in 1960