Konrad Bloch

Konrad Bloch (1972) - Control Aspects of Lipid Biosynthesis

The world’s best-selling class of drugs, the statins, have been developed based on knowledge independently gained by Konrad Bloch and Feodor Lynen who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1964 for their elucidation of the biosynthesis of cholesterol – an intracellular marathon involving more than 30 steps