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About PN Saxena
- Prem Narain Saxena (15 October 1925 – 29 November 1999) was the Founder Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, India.
- He made several notable contributions to the fields of traditional medicine and neuropharmacology.
- His demonstration of the wound-healing property of Curcuma longa was a major contributor to India's successful challenge of the US patent on the wound-healing property of Haldi.
- He was intimately involved in discovery and pre-clinical development of the non-barbiturate hypnotic Methaqualone.
- His basic studies have helped in understanding the role of various neurotransmitters in thermoregulation.
- He also standardized the use of Setaria cervi for discovery of new anti-filarial agents.
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