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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.
21 Feb 1999 · Gertrude Elion was a chemist who developed a systematic method for producing drugs based on biochemistry and diseases. She helped create drugs for leukemia, malaria, infections, gout, and organ transplantations.
Learn about the life and work of Gertrude B. Elion, a pioneer in nucleic acid research and a Nobel laureate in medicine. Read her autobiographical account of how she overcame challenges and pursued her passion for science.
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.
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.
2 Apr 2014 · Best Known For: 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...
Gertrude Belle Elion (23 Januari 1918 - 21 Februari 1999) ialah seorang ahli biokimia dan ahli farmakologi Amerika, yang berkongsi Hadiah Nobel dalam Fisiologi atau Perubatan 1998 bersama dengan George H. Hitchings dan Sir James Black.
