Yellapragada Subba Rao,
born on 12 January 1895, was a pioneering Indian biochemist who discovered the
function of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) as an energy source in the cell,
developed methotrexate for the treatment of cancer and led the department at
Lederle laboratories in which Benjamin Minge Duggar discovered
chlortetracycline (Aureomycin) in 1945.
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