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????7.拜耳集團

????1932年，德國拜耳集團（Bayer）的化學家合成了第一個抗生素百浪多息（Prontosil）。10多年后，盤尼西林才在市場上銷售。作為治療細菌感染的第一種化學藥品，百浪多息和隨后的“碘胺類”藥物開創了醫藥行業的新紀元。1939年，拜耳研究員格哈德?多馬克憑借其對百浪多息的研發，獲得了諾貝爾獎（Nobel Prize）。—Tim Smith

????7. Bayer

????Chemists working for Bayer synthesized Prontosil, the first antibiotic, in 1932, more than a decade before penicillin became commercially available. Prontosil and subsequent “sulfa” drugs—the first chemicals used to treat bacterial infections—opened a new era in medicine. Gerhard Domagk, a Bayer researcher, was awarded the Nobel Price for his work on prontosil in 1939. —Tim Smith