Paul Adriaan Jan, Baron Janssen was a Belgian physician.
10 Facts About Paul Janssen
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Paul Janssen was the son of Constant Janssen and Margriet Fleerackers.
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Paul Janssen attended secondary school at the Jesuit St Jozef college in Turnhout, Belgium after which he decided to follow in his father's footsteps and become a physician.
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Paul Janssen then studied medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven and Ghent University.
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Paul Janssen graduated with a postdoctoral degree in pharmacology at the same university in 1956, and studied at the Institute of Pharmacology of the University of Cologne.
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In 1956, Paul Janssen received his habilitation in pharmacology with pro venia legendi designation for his thesis on Compounds of the R 79 type.
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Paul Janssen left the university and established what would become Janssen Pharmaceutica.
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In 1959, Paul Janssen synthesized the potent opioid fentanyl based on SAR studies of meperidine.
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In 1985, Paul Janssen Pharmaceutical became the first Western pharmaceutical company to establish a factory in the People's Republic of China.
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Paul Janssen died in Rome in 2003, while attending the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, of which he had been a member since 1990.