Salvarsan (arsphenamine)
Salvarsán (arsfenamina)
- Date
- 1909–1910 · confidence high
- Place
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Credited to
- Paul Ehrlich and Sahachiro Hata (Institute for Experimental Therapy, compound 606)
- People
- 👤 Paul Ehrlich1854–1915👤 Sahachiro Hata1873–1938
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
First drug systematically designed to attack a microbe (syphilis) without harming the patient: the 'magic bullet'. It founded antimicrobial chemotherapy.
What it led to
- The concept of chemotherapy and systematic compound screening
- Sulfonamides and antibiotics
- Industrial pharmaceutical research (Hoechst)
Built on
- Arsenicc. 1250
- Ehrlich's receptor theory
- Synthetic dyes
- Identification of Treponema (1905)