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A tribute to Dr. Paul A. J. Janssen: entrepreneur extraordinaire, innovative scientist, and significant contributor to anesthesiology.

Stanley TH, Egan TD, Van Aken H

Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, 30 North 1900 East, 3C444 SOM, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, USA. theodore.stanley@hsc.utah.edu

Dr. Paul Janssen was the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica and the developer of over 80 pharmaceutical compounds that proved useful in human, botanical, and veterinary medicine. He and his coworkers synthesized the fentanyl family of drugs, many other potent analgesics, droperidol, etomidate, and numerous other important medicines that were extremely useful in psychiatry, parasitology, gastroenterology, cardiology, virology, and immunology. Anesthesiology and medicine as a whole have benefited a great deal from his resourcefulness, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit.

Published 29 January 2008 in Anesth Analg, 106(2): 451-62, table of contents.
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