Janet Rideout

Janet Litster Rideout
Born (1939-01-06) January 6, 1939 (age 85)
Bennington, Vermont, US
Alma materMount Holyoke College, State University of New York, Buffalo
Known forapplication of AZT to HIV
Scientific career
Fieldsorganic chemistry; nucleoside chemistry
InstitutionsBurroughs Wellcome, Inspire Pharmaceuticals

Janet Rideout is an organic chemist and one of the scientists who discovered that azidothymidine (AZT) could be used as an antiretroviral agent to treat Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).[1] She also played a key role in the development of acyclovir, the first effective treatment for herpes simplex virus.[2]

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