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Inventor

Richard L. Monaghan

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1980

Associated with

Years active

1980

Total patents

1

Most recent

1980

Frequent collaborator

Alfred W. Alberts

Domains

biotechpharmaceutical

Activity by decade

1980s
1

Patents

1

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1980

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US 4231938·1980·Merck and Co Inc

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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