Background
Beljanski was born in 1923 in Yugoslavia.
Beljanski was born in 1923 in Yugoslavia.
He received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1948 from the University of Paris.
He came to France to study, and lived there for the rest of his life. In 1948, he entered the National Center for Scientific Research and worked at the Pasteur Institute in Paris as a researcher in molecular biology. He made several discoveries while studying Ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid. Beljanski was made to leave the Pasteur Institute in 1978, after pursuing research against the advice of the institute, but still continued to publish scientific papers.
He was at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Châtenay-Malabry until his retirement in 1988.
In his lifetime, Beljanski published a total of 133 scientific papers, mostly written in French. Beljanski believed he had found antivirals effective against cancer and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. A product made from extracts of the Brazilian paopereira tree and called PB100 was claimed to be superior to AZT, which Beljanksi called "real poison".
Customers included François Mitterrand (via a homeopath called Philippe de Kuyper). There was never any evidence that any of the products Beljanski promoted were effective medicine.
The French Department of Health accused him of illegally practising medicine in 1991, and he was sentenced in March 1994.
Beljanski died from cancer in Paris on 27 October 1998.