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Gertrude "Trudy" [2] 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. [3]
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.
He received his higher education in New York City and graduated in 1914 from the New York University School of Dentistry. My mother came at the age of 14 from a part of Russia which, after the war, became Poland; she was only 19 when she was married to my father.
Dec 4, 2007 · Gertrude Belle Elion (1918–1999) was a teenager when her grandfather died of stomach cancer in 1933. From that point on she wanted to be a scientist so that she could fight disease.
George Hitchings (1905–1998) and Gertrude Elion (1918–1999) diverged from this traditional path by deliberately designing new molecules with specific molecular structures, using what today is termed rational drug design.
Elion was motivated to study chemistry and pharmacology when her grandfather died of cancer. During her career she led in the development of drugs to treat many major diseases like malaria and AIDS. Along with George H Hitchings, Elion was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988.
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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.
