William Prusoff
William Herman Prusoff | |
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| Born | June 25, 1920 |
| Died | April 3, 2011 (aged 90) New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Miami Columbia University |
| Spouse | Brigitte Prusoff (née Auerbach) (1926-1991) |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pharmacology, virology |
| Institutions | Case Western Reserve William H. Prusoff Foundation Yale University |
William Herman Prusoff (June 25, 1920 – April 3, 2011) was an American pharmacologist who was an early innovator in antiviral drugs, developing idoxuridine, the first antiviral agent approved by the FDA, in the 1950s, and co-developing (with Tai-shun Lin) stavudine, one of the earliest AIDS drugs, in the mid-1980s.