Yellapragada Subbarow: scientist who changed medicine

Yellapragada Subbarow developed the Fiske-Subbarow method for measuring phosphate in blood and tissues.

His research contributed to the discovery of folic acid, crucial for preventing birth defects.

Subbarow played a key role in developing methotrexate, a foundational chemotherapy drug.

He helped advance tetracycline antibiotics and diethylcarbamazine (DEC) for filariasis.

Despite his transformative impact on cancer, autoimmune, and infectious disease treatments, he never won a Nobel Prize.