Sir Archibald Garrod

Abstract

When the history of inborn errors of metabolism is written, the name that will be mentioned foremost is that of Sir Archibald Garrod, who through his pioneering work on Alkaptonuria laid a solid foundation for this evolving specialty of medicine in the early years of the 20 th century. This article gives a brief overview of his work and his accomplishments of his career.

Keywords

• Alkaptonuria
• inborn error of metabolism
• biochemical genetics