Physician and biochemist Luis Federico Leloir was the first Argentinian to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was given the prestigious award in 1970.
Despite hardships such as lack of financial support and less-than-state-of-the-art equipment, his research into sugar nucleotides, carbohydrate metabolism and renal hypertension has led to significant progress in understanding, diagnosing and treating galactosemia, a rare genetic disorder that effects an individual's ability to metabolize the sugar galactose properly.
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