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6 unusual facts about American Cyanamid


American Cyanamid

A derivative drug, Triamcinolone acetonide, is one of the ingredients of Ledermix - an endodontic (tooth's root canal) lotion used between sessions.

Atul Limited

Soon after its inception, Atul established three joint venture companies with the then leading multi-national companies in the world, namely, Cyanamid India Ltd (1947) with American Cyanamid, Atic Industries Ltd (1955) with Imperial Chemical Industries plc and Cibatul Ltd (1960) with Ciba-Geigy Ltd.

Claudius H. Huston

His association lobbied for the Muscle Shoals bid of the American Cyanamid Co., under which Union Carbide Co. would get a share of surplus Muscle Shoals power.

Francesco DeMaria

DeMaria was the group leader in the engineering research section of the Central Research Division of American Cyanamid from 1959 to 1964.

Ihor R. Lemischka

His awards include a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Postdoctoral, a Leukemia Social Special Fellowship, an American Cyanamid Preceptorship Award and the DuPont Young Faculty Grant.

Kasturbhai Lalbhai

In 1952, he started Atul Limited (literally, 'incomparable'), India’s first modern dyestuff manufacturer, in collaboration with American Cyanamid Company.


Bob Justin

Currently, public collections of his work exist in the permanent collections of the Plainsboro Township, New Jersey municipal buildings, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, New Jersey, the American Cyanamid Corporation, West Windsor, New Jersey, and the permanent collection of the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey and at the artist's website, bobjustin.com.

Bovine somatotropin

Four large pharmaceutical companies, Monsanto, American Cyanamid, Eli Lilly, and Upjohn, developed commercial rBST products and submitted them to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval.

Business nationalism

Two business nationalists who networked other ultraconservatives were J. Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil, and William B. Bell, president of the chemical company American Cyanamid.


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