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Early life and education. Elion was born in New York City on January 23, 1918, [1] to parents Robert Elion, a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant and a dentist, and Bertha Cohen, a Polish Jewish immigrant. Her family lost their wealth after the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Feb 21, 1999 · Gertrude B. Elion. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988. Born: 23 January 1918, New York, NY, USA. Died: 21 February 1999, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Wellcome Research Laboratories, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. Prize motivation: “for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment”
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.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1988 was awarded jointly to Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment"
With the drugs that she created, Gertrude Elion fulfilled her life’s mission: to alleviate human suffering. Beyond the individual drugs she discovered, she pioneered a new, more scientific approach to drug development that forever altered – and accelerated – medical research.
Feb 22, 1999 · Gertrude B. Elion, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Elion was a member of one of the greatest drug-discovery partnerships in the history of medicine. The other member was George Hitchings, a biochemist 12 years her senior, who hired her as an assistant, gave “leeway to her talent, and pulled her along in his own ascent.”
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.
Jan 23, 2018 · Science. How One Scientist Broke Through the ‘Brick Wall’ for Women in Chemistry. 4 minute read. Burroughs Wellcome researcher Gertrude Elion was back at work in the lab after being named a...
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.
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.
