Dr Gertrude Elion, US biochemist and pharmacologist and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for medicine. This was in recognition of over 40 years of work
Dr Gertrude Elion, US biochemist and pharmacologist and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for medicine. This was in recognition of over 40 years of work in developing a range of drugs to fight leukaemia, malaria, gout, organ transplant rejection, herpes virus infection and bacterial infection. Elion shared the prize with Dr George Hitchings, a colleague at Burroughs-Wellcome Research Laboratories in the since 1945 and Sir James Black, of Kings College Hospital Medical School, London.
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