• John Cade
– lithium for bipolar depression
• YouYou Tu
– during project 523 discovered cure for malaria
• Paul Ehrlich
discovered salvarsan which was used for syphilis
• Miguel Ondetti
blood pressure high used snake venom
• Gertrude Elion
– discovered purine and pyrimidine bases for tumour cells/cancer
• Robert woodward
– discovered total synthesis
• Bruce Merrifield
developed combinatorial chemistry; an automated technology that brings industrial scale mass production