RARE \"Prozac Creator\" Dr Bryan Molloy Hand Signed FDC Dated 1984 COA For Sale
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RARE \"Prozac Creator\" Dr Bryan Molloy Hand Signed FDC Dated 1984 COA:
$699.99
Up for sale a RARE! "Prozac Creator" Bryan Molloy Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1984.This item is certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Letter of Molloy (30 March 1939 –
20 May 2004) was a Scottish chemist, known notably for helping to name in 1988, and has been the world's leading antidepressant. He was
born in Broughty Ferry, in the
east of Dundee. He received a BSc degree in Chemistry in 1960 from
the University of St Andrews,
gaining a PhD in 1963. He moved to the US in 1963, working on research at three
universities for three years, including Imperial College London.
He researched the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, and its effect on the heart. He worked
with David T. Wong and Klaus Schmiegel. Tricyclic antidepressants had
been introduced in the 1950s, and further antidepressants included monoamine oxidase
inhibitors (MAOIs); these had side-effects. In 1971, Wong and
Molloy went to a lecture in Indianapolis given by Solomon H. Snyder, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University.
This gave them a method to test new compounds similar to antihistamines found by Molloy, one being fluoxetine. Fluoxetine
hydrochloride (3-aryloxy-3-phenylpropylamine, an aryloxyphenylpropylamine), the
first of the selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), was discovered in 1972,
and made public in 1974; work had begun with Robert
Rathbun in 1970. Other well-known SSRIs would be sertraline (Zoloft) from Pfizer, GSK. Fluoxetine is on the WHO Model
List of Essential Medicines. He later worked on cardiovascular disease and cardiac He retired in 2001.

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