Robert R Ruffolo was President

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 of Research and Development

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 for Wyeth

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 Pharmaceuticals, and corporate Senior Vice President of Wyeth from 2001 to 2008. During his career in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Ruffolo played a significant role in the discovery and/or development of a number of marketed products, including carvedilol

Carvedilol

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 (Coreg/Kredex) for the treatment of congestive heart failure

Congestive heart failure

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 and hypertension, dobutamine

Dobutamine

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 (Dobutrex) for the acute management of congestive heart failure, ropinirole

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 (Requip) for Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson's disease

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, eprosartan

Eprosartan

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 (Teveten) for hypertension

Hypertension

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Ruffolo has authored nearly 500 full-length publications and 200 abstracts, and has edited 17 books. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinions in Pharmacology. Ruffolo has served on the editorial boards of 28 international scientific journals. Ruffolo received a number of prestigious awards, including Chief Scientific Officer of the Year (2004), George B. Koelle Award for Scientific Excellence (2005), Lorenzini Gold Medal for Biomedical Research (1999), John Jacob Abel Award in Pharmacology (1988), Prix Galien Special Commendation for Excellence and Innovation in Research (1996), the Distinguished Alumni Award from The Ohio State University

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 (1989). The American Society for Information Science and Technology

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 designated Ruffolo as a Highly Cited Scientist for being among the top one-hundred most cited Pharmacologists in the world over the past two decades.

On 30 November 2007, Ruffolo received a Degree Honoris Causa in Management Engineering from the University of Catania

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 in Sicily

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, Italy

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