FDA Information
Levodopa got the approval from FDA in 1986.
HISTORY:
In work that earned him a Nobel Prize, Swedish scientist Arvid Carlsson first showed in the 1950s that administering levodopa to animals with Parkinsonian symptoms would cause a reduction of the symptoms. The neurologist Oliver Sacks describes this treatment in human patients with encephalitis lethargica in his book "Awakenings" on which the movie of the same name is based.
The 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was also related to levodopa: the Nobel Committee awarded one-fourth of the prize to William S. Knowles for his work on chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions, the most noted example of which was uses for the synthesis of levodopa.
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