Gertrude B. Elion M.S.[Chemisty]
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988
National Medal of Science – Chemistry 1991
Chemist, Pharmacologist. Discovered principles for drug treatment; developed drugs – anticancer, immunosuppressive, antiviral, antibacterial, anti-gout, anti-malarial. Purines.
“I was a child with an insatiable thirst for knowledge. My beloved grandfather died of cancer when I was 15. I was highly motivated to discover a cure for this terrible disease”.
Publications
Customized From her first publication in 1939 to her last in 1998. PubMed, US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.