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Streptomycin was first isolated on October 19, 1943, by Albert Schatz, a PhD student in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University in a research project funded by Merck and Co. Waksman and his laboratory staff discovered several antibiotics, including actinomycin, clavacin, streptothricin, streptomycin, grisein, neomycin ...
Here, in Martin Hall, Selman A. Waksman and his students isolated antibiotics produced by actinomycetes, most notably streptomycin, the first effective pharmaceutical treatment for tuberculosis, cholera, and typhoid fever. They also isolated neomycin, used as a topical antibacterial agent.
Dr. Waksman's studies had led to the discovery of streptomycin, a new antibiotic. Streptomycin was the first effective cure for tuberculosis (TB). Its history, however, is a rather complicated story. It persistently presented problems for Dr. Waksman up to his death in 1973.
- H. Boyd Woodruff
- 10.1128/AEM.01143-13
- 2014
- Appl Environ Microbiol. 2014 Jan; 80(1): 2-8.
Streptomycin was discovered by American biochemists Selman Waksman, Albert Schatz, and Elizabeth Bugie in 1943. The drug acts by interfering with the ability of a microorganism to synthesize certain vital proteins. It was the first antimicrobial agent developed after penicillin and the first antibiotic effective in treating tuberculosis ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Selman Abraham Waksman (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Jewish Ukrainian inventor, Nobel Prize laureate, biochemist and microbiologist whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and several other antibiotics.
Died: 16 August 1973, Hyannis, MA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Prize motivation: “for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis”. Prize share: 1/1.
The first true antibiotic Waksman identified was from Actinomyces antibioticus, a member of the actinomycetes family ( 3. ). The microbe produced a substance, actinomycin, that had both bacteriostatic and bactericidal properties.
