Their efforts epitomize the rational approach that industry scientists increasingly are using to develop today's new and more effective medicines.
Schizophrenia is more than a terrible disease.
Without proper treatment, it can be a life sentence of frightening hallucinations, delusions, social withdrawal, anxiety, depressions, and guilt. When he returned to Lilly laboratories, he, Tupper, and Hotten began their long journey to make that drug. Tupper and Hotten synthesized five more compounds and put them in bottles in their lab. They had been working on the project for eight years and doubts about their prospects were growing within Lilly, but the scientists were given one last chance to produce. Tupper and Hotten started testing the bottled compounds.