Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

The Warfarin Story: Groundbreaking Ceremony and Public Presentation

Room 1211, Biochemical Sciences Building 440 Henry Mall, Madison

In February 1933, a chance encounter between a farmer from northwest Wisconsin and a biochemistry professor in Madison led to a medical breakthrough that has treated millions of patients. That’s the story of warfarin, a prescription blood thinner that is still prescribed today and, for many decades, was also the world’s most widely used rat…

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