Education
Doctor of Philosophy, (1941) is a Belgian physician and biologist. He studied medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven (Leuven, Belgium).
Doctor of Philosophy, (1941) is a Belgian physician and biologist. He studied medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven (Leuven, Belgium).
He did research and later became a professor at the Department of Medicine, where he specialised in microbiology and immunology. He worked at the Rega Institute for Medical Research. Since 1976 Erik De Clercq has collaborated on the development of new antiretroviral drugs with Antonín Holý, of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB) of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czechoslovakian Republic.
Together they discovered amongst others Tenofovir.
He was recognized for his landmark discoveries in anti-Human Immunodeficiency Virus medications, including nucleotide analogues, and inventions or co-inventions of several approved drugs for anti-viral therapy.
