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Knox Van Dyke


Knox Van Dyke

West Virginia University Medical School, USA

Biography

Knox Van Dyke was awarded his Doctorate degree in 1966 at Saint Louis University in the Department of Biochemistry of Nobel Prize winner Dr. EA Doisy, the discoverer of the estrogens and vitamin K. His did his Post-doctoral work at West Virginia University Medical School where he developed the first effective anti-malarial drug screening, still in use today. He became an authority on cellular chemiluminescence (luminescence) and cancer drug resistance reversal. He has made great strides in understanding chronic diseases e.g., Diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.

Abstract

Abstract : Diabetes 1, 2 and 3 (Alzheimer’s disease) cause defects in carbohydrate metabolism and originate from chronic inflammation linked to excessive peroxynitrite metabolism which kills mitochondria