Dr. Guinter Kahn received the 1989 Inventor of the Year Award for his discovery of Rogaine, the only agent approved by the FDA to grow hair. He was a National Honor Society member at Central and went on to graduate from Omaha University with honors. After graduating in 1958 from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, he later received his dermatological specialty training at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He helped rebulid the dermatology department of the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, which then became the “Guinter Kahn Department of Dermatology.” UNMC has named its National Library of Science for him. Dr Kahn was also the director of deratological residency training at Mount Sinai Hospital, Miami, Florida.
Guinter passed away in 2014 at the age of 80.