Pharmacology is the study of how drugs act on living systems, and of how a substance is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.
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Founded YearOswald Schmiedeberg's 1872 appointment as director of the Institute of Pharmacology at the newly founded Kaiser-Wilhelm University in Strasbourg is the conventional founding point of pharmacology as an independent experimental discipline; he trained roughly 120 students who carried the discipline worldwide. Central QuestionBy what precise molecular mechanism does a given drug produce its effect on the body, and how can that mechanism be used to predict a new compound's benefit and risk before it is ever given to a patient? 2 ScopePharmacology is the branch of medicine and biology concerned with how drugs interact with living systems, covering a substance's mechanism of action, its beneficial effects and its toxicity. 2 SignificanceOswald Schmiedeberg, working at the University of Strasbourg in the late nineteenth century, trained a generation of pharmacologists and established the discipline's core experimental methods, earning him recognition as the father of modern pharmacology. 2 Connections
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1. Oswald Schmiedeberg 1838-1921, Ninth Pharmacologic-Historical Forum (PMC)
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Holmstedt and Liljestrand's (1963) History of Pharmacology and Toxicology noted, "Schmiedeberg was undoubtedly the most prominent pharmacologist of his time." He had about 120 pupils, about 40 of them occupied pharmacology chairs throughout the world.
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Pharmacology is the science of drugs and medications, including a substance's origin, composition and interaction with biological systems; specifically through pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, therapeutic use, and toxicology.
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is the science of drugs and medications, including a substance's origin, composition and interaction with biological systems
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is a Taiwanese-American theoretical biologist, pharmacologist, cancer researcher
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Infobox fields: Neuroscience ; Molecular biology ; Pharmacology
Oswald Schmiedeberg (Wikipedia)
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Johann Ernst Oswald Schmiedeberg (10 October 1838-12 July 1921) was a Baltic German pharmacologist.
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting (; November 14, 1891, February 21, 1941) was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon.
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Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston (; 24 September 1898-21 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming "for the discovery of penicillin and its
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Otto Loewi (; 3 June 1873-25 December 1961) was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter.
Carl Ferdinand Cori (Wikipedia)
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Carl Ferdinand Cori, ForMemRS (December 5, 1896, October 20, 1984) was an Austrian-American biochemist and pharmacologist.
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Ulf Svante von Euler (7 February 1905-9 March 1983) was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist.
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Roger Edward Collingwood Altounyan (1922-1987) was a Syrian-born Anglo-Armenian physician and pharmacologist who pioneered the use of sodium cromoglycate as a remedy for asthma.
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was an English pharmacologist
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John W. Kebabian was a neuropharmacologist and neuroscientist who was the first to discover that there were multiple subtypes of dopamine receptors.
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