EPO – Finalist 2016 Lifetime Achievement – Helping newborn babies breathe, Tore Curstedt
Tore Curstedt (Sweden)
Invention: Helping newborn babies breathe
The invention of pulmonary surfactants by Swedish laboratory physician Tore Curstedt at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm marked a milestone in saving the lives of early-born infants suffering from respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), a lung condition that was the leading cause of death among newborns for decades.