More than 35 years of clinical experience have made Canesten what it is today: an effective, well tolerated and safe drug product for fungal infections.
Modern antifungal research got underway after World War II and then intensified in the 1950s and 1960s as a result of the massive increase in
More than 35 years of clinical experience have made Canesten what it is today: an effective, well tolerated and safe drug product for fungal infections.
Modern antifungal research got underway after World War II and then intensified in the 1950s and 1960s as a result of the massive increase in fungal infections. Bayer was amongst those who responded to this challenge and established a research laboratory for medicinal mycology in 1963. The breakthrough to active substances with a broad spectrum of antifungal action was achieved with the discovery of the azole derivatives by the Bayer researcher Prof. Karl Heinz Büchel who succeeded in synthesising the first azole derivative, clotrimazole, in the late 1960s.
