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VANE, Sir John Robert (1927 – 2004)

VANE, Sir John Robert (1927 – 2004)

1927 – 2004

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1971 CE

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Inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis as a mechanism of action for aspirin-like drugs.

In 1982 Vane shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson for "their discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances."