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Paul Janssen was born on 12 September, 1926 in Turnhout, Belgium, is a Belgian scientist, founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica. Discover Paul Janssen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Occupation Physician Founder, Janssen Pharmaceutica
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 12 September, 1926
Birthday 12 September
Birthplace Turnhout, Belgium
Date of death 11 November, 2003
Died Place Rome, Italy
Nationality Belgium

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His wife is Dora Arts

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1926

Paul Adriaan Jan, Baron Janssen (12 September 1926 – 11 November 2003) was a Belgian physician.

He was the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a pharmaceutical company with over 20,000 employees which is now a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

Paul Janssen was the son of Constant Janssen and Margriet Fleerackers.

He 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.

During World War II Janssen studied physics, biology and chemistry at the Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP) in Namur.

He then studied medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven and Ghent University.

1938

After he returned to Belgium, he worked part time at the University of Ghent Institute of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, headed by Corneille Heymans, who had won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1938.

1951

In 1951, Janssen received his medical degree magna cum laude from Ghent University.

1952

During his military service and until 1952, he worked at the Institute of Pharmacology of the University of Cologne.

1953

With a loan of fifty thousand Belgian francs received from his father, Janssen founded his own research laboratory in 1953.

That same year, he discovered ambucetamide, an antispasmodic found to be particularly effective for the relief of menstrual pain.

1956

He 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.

In 1956, Janssen received his habilitation in pharmacology with pro venia legendi ("permission to lecture") designation for his thesis on Compounds of the R 79 type.

He left the university and established what would become Janssen Pharmaceutica.

1957

On 16 April 1957, he married Dora Arts.

1958

On 11 February 1958 he developed haloperidol, a major breakthrough in the treatment of schizophrenia.

Working with his team, he developed the fentanyl family of drugs and a number of anesthetic agents, including droperidol and etomidate.

One of the anti-diarrheal drugs he developed, diphenoxylate (Lomotil), was used in the Apollo program.

1959

In 1959, Janssen synthesized the potent opioid fentanyl based on SAR studies of meperidine.

1970

In the 1970s, he would improve upon the potency of fentanyl with the synthesis of Carfentanil.

1985

In 1985, Janssen Pharmaceutical became the first Western pharmaceutical company to establish a factory in the People's Republic of China (Xi'an).

1991

In 1991, he was elevated to the Belgian nobility by King Baudouin receiving the title of Baron.

1995

In 1995, together with Paul Lewi, he founded the Center for Molecular Design, where he and his team used a supercomputer to search candidate molecules for potential AIDS treatments.

Altogether Janssen and his cadre of scientists discovered more than eighty new medications, four of which are on the WHO list of essential medicines.

2003

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.