A Bloody Long Journey: Erythropoietin (Epo) and the Person Who Isolated It

Eugene Goldwasser (1922-2010) was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the University of Chicago, where he also earned a PhD in biochemistry, and where he remained as a faculty member for his entire career. His long-term project of purifying the hormone erythropoietin (epo) was a signal success of pure science in the twentieth century, and contributed directly to the rapid growth of the biotech industry in the 1980s, while also helping relieve the suffering of millions of patients ...