Weintraub, Michael

A pharmacy journal reports the work of the University of Rochester s Dr. Michael Weintraub, who has discovered that the combination of fenfluramine and phentermine is effective for weight loss. 

Philip M. Weintraub completed his Masters and Ph.D. degrees at The Ohio State University under the direction of Michael P. Cava. After a brief stint at the DuPont Experimental Station, he took a position at Hess Clark, a veterinary pharmaceutical division of Richardson Merrell. In 1970 he was transferred to the Wm S. Merrell Pharmaceutical Co. where he remained through several mergers. In 1998, with the formation of Hoechst-Marion-Roussel, he moved to Bridgewater, New Jersey where he remains through two more mergers as a medicinal chemist. He was an editor of Annual Reports in Organic Synthesis from 1990-2004. 

Rothman, Allan, and Michael Weintraub. The Sick Building Syndrome and Mass Hysteria. Neurologic Clinics 13, no. 2 (1995) 405-12. 

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