Roger Altounyan was a British physician and pharmacologist of Armenian descent who, over years of testing compounds on himself to trigger and then treat his own asthma, discovered and developed sodium cromoglycate, marketed as Intal, one of the first effective preventive medications for asthma.
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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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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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