On the history of pharmaceutical industry in the Czech Lands. INTERPHARMA
Authors:
Vilma Vranová 1; Václav Rusek 2
Authors‘ workplace:
Veterinární a farmaceutická univerzita Brno, Ústav aplikované farmacie
1; Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Farmaceutická fakulta v Hradci Králové, České farmaceutické muzeum v Kuksu
2
Published in:
Čes. slov. Farm., 2011; 60, 200-204
Category:
History of Pharmacy
Overview
Interpharma, a company manufacturing and selling chemical and pharmaceutical preparations, Ltd. was founded in Prague in 1932. The company was innovative; during the first five years of their existence they brought 24 new pharmaceuticals to the market, all of them being very new on the Czechoslovak market. During their existence (14 years) they brought to market more than 50 pharmaceuticals, 15 of them were made in cooperation with the B. Fragner Company. The pharmaceuticals were both copies of foreign remedies and their own original substances. The original remedy Pelentan was a great contribution to the world pharmaceutical portfolio as well as various drug candidates of sulphonamides developed in Czechoslovakia. Interpharma was nationalized in 1945 and became a part of SPOFA, national enterprise.
Key words:
pharmaceutical industry – history of pharmacy – Pelentan
Labels
Pharmacy Clinical pharmacologyArticle was published in
Czech and Slovak Pharmacy
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