Oleh Hornykiewicz

Oleh Hornykiewicz (17 November 1926 – 26 May 2020) was a Polish-born Austrian Wolf Prize-winning biochemist. Hornykiewicz was born in Sykhiw (a district of Lviv), then in Poland (now Ukraine).^[1]

He was chairman of the Institute of Biochemical Pharmacology at the University of Vienna for twenty years. In 1967, he began a long career with the University of Toronto in Canada and, in 1992, he was named professor emeritus at that institution.^[2]

He discovered that Parkinson's disease was due to dopamine deficiency in the brain. He also played a key role in the development of L-dopa as a therapy for the disorder.^[3]

Hornykiewicz died on 26 May 2020, aged 93.^[4]

References

↑ "The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography - Volume 4" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-13.
↑ "The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research". Archived from the original on January 1, 2009. retrieved: 26 October 2009
↑ "Dr. Oleh Hornykiewicz - Parkinson Society Canada". Archived from the original on 2013-10-16. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
↑ Pharmakologe Oleh Hornykiewicz 93-jährig gestorben Archived 2020-05-27 at the Wayback Machine (in German)

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[1] "The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography - Volume 4" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-13.

[2] "The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research". Archived from the original on January 1, 2009. retrieved: 26 October 2009

[3] "Dr. Oleh Hornykiewicz - Parkinson Society Canada". Archived from the original on 2013-10-16. Retrieved 2013-10-14.

[4] Pharmakologe Oleh Hornykiewicz 93-jährig gestorben Archived 2020-05-27 at the Wayback Machine (in German)

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