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Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovative methods of rational drug design for the development of new drugs.
Apr 2, 2014 · American biochemist and pharmacologist Gertrude B. Elion helped develop drugs to treat leukemia and prevent kidney transplant rejection. She won a Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988.
Gertrude B. Elion was an American pharmacologist who, along with George H. Hitchings and Sir James W. Black, received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for their development of drugs used to treat several major diseases.
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Leukemia, Herpes Drug Pioneer. Gertrude Elion (1918–1999) and colleague George Hitchings (1905–1998) went off the beaten path of trial-and-error drug development to revolutionize drug making.
Aug 31, 2020 · Born in 1918 in Manhattan, Gertrude Elion developed the drug acyclovir, a potent inhibitor of herpes viruses with remarkably low toxicity, which her team unveiled in 1978.
Feb 22, 1999 · Gertrude Elion’s name appears on 45 patents. Although she officially retired in 1983, she remained active in the scientific world, as a consultant with her old firm, which became Glaxo Wellcome and is now part of GlaxoSmithKline. That same year, she became President of the American Association for Cancer Research.
May 23, 2024 · Gertrude Belle Elion was a twentieth-century scientist in the US who researched the structure of viral DNA to help develop anti-viral medications. In the 1970s, Elion helped to develop acyclovir, an early anti-viral medication, alongside a team of other researchers.
