Suzanne Urverg-Ratsimamanga (18 June 1928 - 16 March 2016) was a French-Malagasy Ashkenazi Jewish physician and biochemist.
[1] She was married to Albert Rakoto Ratsimamanga, with whom she founded the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research [fr].
[3] Urverg married Albert Rakoto Ratsimamanga on 23 March 1963, and was his closest scientific collaborator.
[4][5] Together they founded the Malagasy Institute of Applied Research [fr] (IMRA) in 1957 (today’s Albert and Suzanne Rakoto Ratsimamanga Foundation).
[9][10] IMRA succeeded in using the Syzygium cumini tree as an anti-diabetic agent, [11] and creating alternative medicines against malaria,[12][13] leprosy, asthma, lithiasis, blood pressure, hepatitis and other common conditions.