Eugene Goldwasser(1922-2010)

摘要

Eugene 'Gene' Goldwasser made one of the outstanding advances in twentieth-century biomedicine. Through decades of effort, he purified and initially characterized the properties of the major hormonal regulator of red-blood-cell production - erythropoietin (EPO) - an advance that rivals the discovery of insulin in its importance. Goldwasser's work was instrumental to the large-scale production of recombinant EPO, which since the late 1980s has been used to induce red-cell formation, especially in anaemic patients with chronic renal disease.