The prelude of "Molecular neurosurgery" started at the time of Albert Szent-Györgyi was given the Nobel Prize, who created a school of scientific excellence when Kuno Klebelsberg, Minister of Public Education, called him back from abroad. The capsaicin success story started 80 years ago in Szeged was taken by Dr. Zoltán Oláh cloning its receptor gene (VR1/TRPV1) in 1997 to the human Clinical Trial of a painkiller method and active ingredient discovered through the knowledge of the gene, in 2008
- in an unusually short time -
at the National Institutes of Health (NIH, Bethesda, MD) at the East-cost of the USA.
Cloning the capsaicin's receptor gene and its structural studies were recognized by a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2021, which could be taken by Dr. David Julius of the West-cost of the USA.
A film made with Dr. Oláh, who discovered and took
with his colleagues the method and active ingredient for the replacement of morphine-containing painkillers from the laboratory to the patients (Bench-to-Bedside, B2B) can be watched at the following site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqvSpVuxtFA
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