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YELLAPRAGADA SUBBAROW


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He was born in Bhimavaram, in West Godavari district of .

He was an Indian .

After earning a diploma from the Harvard School he joined Harvard as a junior member.

With Cyrus Fiske, he developed a method for the estimation of phosphorus in body .

He discovered the role of phosphocreatine and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in activity.

He was denied a regular faculty position at . So he joined Lederle, where he developed a method to synthesize , Vitamin B9.

Soon thereafter, he developed the important anti-cancer drug methotrexate - one of the very first cancer agents and still in widespread clinical use.

He also discovered the drug Hetrazan which was used by the against filariasis.

Under Subbarow, Benjamin Duggar made his discovery of the world's first tetracycline , aureomycin, in 1945.

A was named Subbaromyces splendens in his honour by American Cyanamid.

Writing in the April 1950 issue of Argosy magazine, Doron K. Antrim observed, "You've probably never heard of . Yet because he you may be alive and are well today. Because he lived you may live ."