Satoshi Ōmura on Ivermectin - A Splendid Gift from the Earth

Satoshi Ōmura delivered his Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2015 at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. He was introduced by Professor Jan Andersson, Adjunct Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.Show more

"The origin of one of the world’s foremost, revolutionary, versatile yet relatively
unknown drugs lies in Japanese soil—literally and metaphorically. Ivermectin, a multipurpose drug derived from a single microscopic organism discovered in Japanese soil, is being taken free of charge annually by over 250 million people—twice as many people as the entire Japanese population. Its impact
on improving the overall health and welfare of hundreds of millions of men,
women and children, mostly in poor and impoverished communities, remains
unmatched. It continues to defy many preconceived concepts, with no drug resistance developing in humans despite years of extensive monotherapy. Tis has
led to it being included on the World Health Organization’s “List of Essential
Medicines,” a compilation of the most important medications needed in any
basic health system. Several international public health experts have also taken
the unprecedented step of recommending mass administration of ivermectin to
all members of often polyparasitised communities in developing countries as a
simple, prophylactic and curative public health intervention."

Read the lecture here: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/omura-lecture.pdf