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Buprenorphine. Alan Cowan, researcher who helped develop drug used to treat opioid addiction, dies at 77
Buprenorphine. Alan Cowan, researcher who helped develop drug used to treat opioid addiction, dies at 77
Alan Cowan, 77, of Ambler, a Philadelphia pharmacology professor, and before that a researcher who in his first professional job helped develop a drug that was used to treat opioid addiction, died Tuesday, June 30, at his home.
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From 1971 to 1976, while employed by Reckitt & Colman Ltd. in Britain, he was part of a small research team that developed the drug buprenorphine. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA, 07.07.2020)
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