A Tribute to Oleh Hornykiewicz (1926–2020)

Pharmacology and neuroscience have lost a great man, to whom we owe the only firmly established pharmacotherapy of a neurodegenerative disease: Oleh Hornykiewicz, Emeritus and Chairman of the Institute of Biochemical Pharmacology, Vienna, Austria, passed away on 26 May 2020. He was renowned for his discovery of the neuropathological and functional basis of Parkinson’s disease, the striatal loss of dopamine, and its treatment with the dopamine precursor, L-DOPA.