Leo Sternbach

Leo Sternbach (1908 in Austria - September 28th 2005 with Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was a Pharmacologue states-unien. He is especially known for the discovery of the Benzodiazépines, a new class of Anxiolytique S, whose most famous representative is the Diazépam .

Biography

Born with Opatija (in Italian Abbazia) (at the time in Austria-Hungary, currently in Croatia), he fled the Europe in 1941 to avoid persecutions Nazis. To the the United States, always working for the pharmaceutical group Swiss Rock (which became Hoffmann it Roche thereafter), it directs work which led to the development of Somnifère S and the drugs against the epilepsy. Its work will make it possible to develop a new class of Sédatif S. It will result creation from it from the Diazépam, a Sédatif marketed inter alia under the name of Valium®.

In 1978, Roche ran out 2,3 billion pills of Valium® per annum. In 2003, Sternbach affirmed that “That gave you a feeling of wellbeing. It is only by discovering the sales figures which I carried out his importance. ”

See too

Source

  • Death of Leo Sternbach, inventor of Valium

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