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The magic bullet is a scientific concept developed by the German Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich in 1907. While working at the Institute of Experimental Therapy ( Institut für experimentelle Therapie ), Ehrlich formed an idea that it could be possible to kill specific microbes (such as bacteria), which cause diseases in the body, without harming ...
May 12, 2008 · Generations of chemists and pharmacologists interpreted Ehrlich's vision of the magic bullet as a compound that targets a single crucial oncoprotein in an exclusive, highly specific fashion.
- Klaus Strebhardt, Axel Ullrich
- 2008
German biochemist Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915) developed a chemical theory to explain the body’s immune response and did important work in chemotherapy, coining the term magic bullet. Ehrlich received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1908.
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Paul Ehrlich was the first to develop a drug that targeted a specific disease, syphilis, using arsenic compounds. He called these drugs magic bullets and predicted that chemists would find more of them for other diseases.
Ehrlich popularized the concept of a magic bullet. He also made a decisive contribution to the development of an antiserum to combat diphtheria and conceived a method for standardizing therapeutic serums. [1] In 1908, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to immunology. [2] .
One hundred years ago, Paul Ehrlich, the founder of chemotherapy, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. His postulate of creating 'magic bullets' for use in the fight against human diseases inspired generations of scientists to devise powerful molecular cancer therapeutics.
Mar 11, 2004 · Ehrlich's prodigious talents in the laboratory — he was called a virtuoso of test tubes — were matched by a combination of intuition and deduction that marked him as a genius.
