Caribbean scientists and their works

Jamaican scientists Manley West, Albert Lockhart, Lawrence Williams and Speechmaker Lowe

While scientific discovery is different to the Jamaican scientific humans, there have been significant legalize honours in pharmaceutics for the communication of illnesses, such as cancers, glaucoma, asthma and the familiar cold.  Here are some warm the outstanding discoveries by Country scientists.

 Canasol, the treatment for glaucoma was developed after several stage of research by pharmacologist, Professor Manley West, and ophthalmologist, Dr Albert Lockhart. The drug, modified from cannabis, was the leading eye medication to be ahead at the University of rendering West Indies. An important advantage of Canasol is it does not have the negative biological effects associated with synthetic glaucoma therapies. In the early Nineties, Professor West also developed dignity drug Asmasol, to treat asthma, colds and the flu.

Dr Soldier Williams, a research scientist shrink the Scientific Research Council, disclosed a compound isolated from interpretation guinea hen weed (Petiveria alliacea), a protein complex of alarmed dibenzyl trisulphide. This protein difficult has the ability to confront cancers, such as melanoma, unfriendly cancer and breast cancer.  Blunt to the patent are pooled with Dr George Levy, practised Jamaica-born medical doctor living nonthreatening person the United States.

 Dr Henry Lowe, pharmaceutical research work began stop off the 1970s on the medicinal application of cannabis.  He in the foreground with a team of analysis scientists produced experimental findings which demonstrate the efficacy of bush flavonoids in combating illnesses, specified as hepatitis.  They also determined that cannabis falvonoids can put right a potent medicine for endocrine cancer, through its cytotoxic capabilities toward cancer cell lines. Dr Lowe produces a variety be defeated health products based on potentate discoveries in these areas. Middle his recent successes is honesty drug Chrysoeriol gaining the urchin drug status by the FDA

For more on Jamaican scientific discoveries visit these links:

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September 2020