biography
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Hitchings, George H(erbert)
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| lived:
| (1905–98)
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| biography:
| Biochemist and pharmacologist, born in Hoquiam, Washington USA. He studied at the University of Washington and at Harvard, where he taught (1928–39) before moving to Western Reserve University (1939–42). He then joined the Burroughs Wellcome Research Laboratories, NC (1942–75), being joined in 1945 by Gertrude Elion in a major programme of drug development, notably 6-mercaptopurine (6MP) for the treatment of childhood leukaemia, and later other drugs for use in relation to a wide range of diseases, auto-immune disorders, and tissue transplantation. Although Nobel Prizes are rarely awarded to employees of pharmaceutical companies, in 1988 they shared, with James Black, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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