On 100th year of discovery of Urea Stibamine by Sir U. N. Brahmachari

摘要

Noted structural biologist Prof. Siddhartha Roy, Former Director, CSIR-IICB and Bose Institute mentioned in an interview: 'First real drug against an infectious disease (infectious diseases were the scourge worldwide in early part of 20th century) was Paul Ehrlich's Salvarsan. The second infectious disease drug actually originated in India, which is U. N. Brahmachari's Urea Stibamine (US) against Kala-azar. It saved almost as many lives as Penicillin or other drugs. Discovery of five drugs got Nobel Prize but not U. N. Brahmachari's US. He was an unsung hero'.