Maud Menten

Maud Leonora Menten, pronounced Menten, was a Canadian physician, researcher, pathologist and biochemist who made significant contributions to the research of enzyme kinetics and the development of histochemistry. She collaborated with the German biochemist Leonor Michaelis and together they demonstrated that the speed of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction is proportional to the amount of the enzyme-substrate complex. This relationship between reaction rate and enzyme and substrate concentration is known as the Michaelis-Menten equation. Her work laid the foundations of modern pharmacotherapy and biochemistry.