Other batches are not affected. Credit: Rob Banks. The company says some of the packs may contain medications other than Valium. The issue has been referred to NSW Police who have launched an investigation. Valium - the brand-name version of diazepam - is commonly used to treat anxiety disorders and muscle spasms. Approximately 30, packs are distributed every month, Roche estimates. In Leo took up a scholarship in Vienna after working as an assistant in the Organic Chemistry department at the Jagiellonian University.
Three years later he moved to Zurich where he started working for Hoffman-la Roche. The firm organised the relocation of all their Jewish employees to the United States in , with the Swiss government giving passports to non-citizens. It was in the US that he came up with Valium, a benzodiazepine, in , and, in a way, changed the world. Google Street View. Over the years he also helped develop antibiotics, hypnotic drugs and compounds used in bloodless surgery as well as the tranquilizers.
This site uses "cookies". Leo Sternbach. Sternbach still occasionally comes into the office that Roche keeps for him at its U. Valium might never have been discovered if not for the foresight of Roche executives. Around , the Swiss company moved about a dozen Jewish employees and their families, including Sternbach, to the United States in case the Nazis invaded Switzerland.
It also took the persistence of Sternbach. Thinking the molecule he was studying lacked promise, he had put it on the shelf. Then one day, he says, he decided to take another crack at it. And lo and behold, after testing the compound on lab animals, Valium was born.
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