What is Cyclosporine and where does it come from?
Cyclosporine, also called cyclosporin A, is an eleven amino acid protein that was first extracted from the fungus, Tolypociadium inflatum Gams in 1970. Jean Borel, a scientist working at Sandoz in Basel, Switzerland discovered the immunosuppressive properties of cyclosporine in 1972. Cyclosporine was considered the prototype of a new generation of immunosuppressants and it heralded the beginning of successful organ transplantation in man. It was first registered in Switzerland in 1983.
