![Professors Peter Tyler and Richard Furneaux in a lab.](http://static.sciencelearn.org.nz/images/images/000/003/930/full/KIWINET_KiwinetAwards2017_RichardAndColleague.jpg?1674172501)
Forodesine hydrochloride, the active ingredient in a drug to treat a number of non-Hodgkin lymphomas, was first synthesised by Professors Peter Tyler and Richard Furneaux and first conceived by long-time collaborator Professor Vern Schramm from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.