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Merck and Co Inc

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1

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1980

biotechpharmaceutical

Key Inventors

Richard L. Monaghan1Alfred W. Alberts1Carl H. Hoffman1George Albers-Schonberg1

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1 patents, in 1980

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US 4231938·1980

The Discovery of Lovastatin for Lowering Cholesterol

A 1979 patent by Merck describing the isolation of a fermentation product from Aspergillus fungi that effectively lowers cholesterol levels in the blood.

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