Alejandro Zaffaroni (1923–2014)

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 508; no. 7495; p. 187
• Main Author: Shaw, Jane E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 10.04.2014; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/154; 631/61; 706/703/66; Administration, Inhalation; Biology; Biotechnology; Biotechnology - history; Birth control; Combinatorial Chemistry Techniques - history; Delayed-Action Preparations - history; Drug Delivery Systems - history; Drug Discovery - history; Drug Industry - history; Entrepreneurship - history; Genome-Wide Association Study - history; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; multidisciplinary; obituary; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis - history; Science; Scientists; Side effects; Steroids - history; Studies; Transdermal Patch - history; United States; Uruguay; Zaffaroni Alejandro; United States; Uruguay

Alejandro Zaffaroni spent some 60 years helping to conduct research that led to the birth-control pill, and co-founded nearly a dozen biotechnology start-ups in California's Silicon Valley. He commercialized innovative ways to get drugs into the body. His adhesive skin patches, implanted device...