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Award recognizes Richard B. Silverman’s significant impact on medicinal chemistry, enhancing patient care through drug discovery.
Professor Richard B. Silverman has been awarded the 2026 IUPAC-Richter Prize in Medicinal Chemistry. Silverman is the Patrick G. Ryan/Aon Professor at the Department of Chemistry of Northwestern University, United States. The 2026 IUPAC-Richter Prize recognized Silverman’s transformative and sustained contributions to medicinal chemistry that have fundamentally reshaped both scientific understanding and patient care. He is the inventor of pregabalin (Lyrica®), one of the most successful university-originated drugs in history, which has alleviated suffering for millions of patients worldwide and stands as a landmark achievement in academic drug discovery.
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