Albert Rakoto Ratsimamanga
Born into a disgraced royal family; Ratsimamanga trained as a doctor of exotic medicine in French Madagascar and France, where he pioneered modern nutraceuticals.Ratsimamanga returned to Madagascar and, with his wife, Suzanne Urverg-Ratsimamanga, in 1957, established the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research [fr] which specialised in herbal medicine.Ratsimamanga is considered one of Madagascar's most renowned scholars and bestowed upon him the highest orders of merits nationally and internationally.[1] He was the grandson of Prince Ratsimamanga, uncle and advisor to Queen Ranavalona III, who was executed in 1897 at the beginning of the French colonisation of Madagascar.[4] Ratsimamanga work showed the presence of hormones in the diet and their role in the development of the body, while eliminating the factors of cellular detoxification, especially in the liver.[13][14] IMRA succeeded in using the Syzygium cumini tree as an anti-diabetic agent,[15] and creating alternative medicines against malaria,[16][17] leprosy, asthma, lithiasis, blood pressure, hepatitis and other common conditions.[41] Ratsimamanga's legacy can be seen as a Chronological straddling of this diasporic projection with political independence and loyalty to an aristocratic ethos with a progressive rallying to a republican conception of citizenship
AntananarivoFrench MadagascarSuzanne Urverg-RatsimamangaUniversity of AntananarivoUniversity of ParisPasteur InstituteGrand CrossOrder of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyLegion of HonourNational Order of the LionOrdre des Palmes académiquesCongo - BrazzavilleOrdre national du MériteRoyal Academy for Overseas SciencesNutraceuticalPharmacopoeiaHerbal medicineFrench National Centre for Scientific ResearchUNESCOnutraceuticalsMadagascarMalagasy Republicorders of meritsThe World Academy of SciencesAfrican Academy of SciencesRanavalona IIIFrench colonisationheavy drinkingIndigenous MedicineColonial ExhibitionDoctor of ScienceDoctor of MedicinePasteur InstitutFrédéric Joliot-CurieHuman blood group systemsleprosytuberculosisPhytotherapySyzygium cuminimalariaasthmalithiasisblood pressurehepatitisProfessor EmeritusInstitut de FranceAcadémie Nationale de MédecineWorld Congress of Intellectuals in Defence of PeaceDemocratic Movement for Malagasy RenovationJacques RabemananjaraMalagasy UprisingMerinaroyal courtWrocław University of Science and TechnologySoviet UnionWest GermanySierra LeoneEuropean Economic CommunityFood and Agriculture OrganizationAshkenazi JewishGrand Cross of the Malagasy National OrderOrder of MeritLegion of HonorHonorary DoctorateCheikh Anta Diop Universitycommemorative stampFrenchPatrick Rajoelina