I was today's years old when I learned the man who discovered Ivermectin in 1973 is....

Satoshi.

Professor Satoshi Omura won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015 and is currently a professor at Kitasato University.

He holds doctorates in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemistry.

His discovery of Ivermectin changed the world.

The international Journal of Antibiotics shows the unprecedented array of uses in humans:

Rosacea

Parasites

Asthma

Epilepsy

Viral infection (HIV, dengue)

Bacterial infection (TB)

Neurological diseases

and... CANCER.