In 2015 - the two scientists who discovered Ivermectin won the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine.

William Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura were awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for its discovery and applications...

"The derivatives of which have radically lowered the incidence of river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, as well as showing efficacy against an expanding number of other parasitic diseases".