Soil samples from this locale provided material for WHAT renal immunosuppressive agent?
This is rapamune( sirolimus). Most of you got this one. It was discovered by Brazilian researchers as a prodcut of bacterium streptomyces hygroscopius in the soils of the Easter Island also known as Rapa Nui.
The US President who died of Bright's disease is Chester A Arthur.
He was the 21st US President. ( 1881-85)
Sirolimus: Do not quote from Wikipedia blindly. Rapamycin was discovered by a team led by an Indian- Surendra Nath (Suren) Sehgal - not Brazilian researchers.
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