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LITTLE GIANTS IN CHEMISTRY
Before delivering his 2019 Hovey Lecture and talking with students about his own patented molecules, Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ Brad Maxwell ’83—former principal scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb— took a moment to remember another Wabash chemist who worked at Squibb: the late David Cushman ’65, co-creator of the ACE inhibitor captopril, the first medical treatment for the treatment of hypertension