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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]
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"
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.
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”
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.
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.
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.
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.
Born on January 23, 1918, in New York City, Gertrude B. Elion was the daughter of Robert Elion and Bertha Elion, both affected by the Wall Street Crash in 1929. As she graduated from Walton High School at the age of 15, she spent time with her grandfather, who died of stomach cancer the same year.
