Alejandro Zaffaroni

Alejandro Zaffaroni
Biotechnology Heritage Award, 2006
Born(1923-02-27)February 27, 1923
Montevideo, Uruguay
DiedMarch 1, 2014(2014-03-01) (aged 91)
Atherton, California, US
Alma mater
SpouseLida Zaffaroni
Scientific career
ThesisThe Application of Paper Partition Chromatography to Steroid Analysis (1950)

Alejandro Zaffaroni (February 27, 1923 – March 1, 2014) was a Uruguayan serial entrepreneur who was responsible for founding several biotechnology companies in Silicon Valley.[1][2][3] Products that he was involved in developing include the birth control pill, the nicotine patch, corticosteroids, and the DNA microarray.[4]

  1. ^ Shaw, Jane E. (2014). "Alejandro Zaffaroni (1923–2014) Bioentrepreneur who revolutionized drug delivery and screening". Nature. 508 (7495): 187. doi:10.1038/508187a. PMID 24717508.
  2. ^ Alejandro Zaffaroni's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  3. ^ Zaffaroni, A; Burton, R. B. (1951). "Identification of corticosteroids of beef adrenal extract by paper chromatography". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 193 (2): 749–67. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)50931-5. PMID 14907764.
  4. ^ Pollack, Andrew (March 6, 2014). "Alejandro Zaffaroni, Entrepreneur on Biotech Frontier, Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 March 2016.