Following this, he completed an internship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and residency at Boston City Hospital.
[5] In 1976, Drachman and Sam Shapiro conducted the first successful transfer of certain features of myasthenia gravis from human beings into laboratory mice.
His research team injected steroid prednisone into 16 patients with muscular dystrophy to slow the progress of the disease.
[7] As a result of his research, Drachman was named director of the Neuromuscular Clinic and received the 1999 Solomon A. Berson Medical Alumni Achievement Award in Basic Science from the New York University School of Medicine.
[10] "Dr. Drachman was featured in a documentary movie ("Two Hands") on the botulinum toxin treatment of dystonia in the world-renowned pianist Leon Fleisher that was nominated for an Oscar.