biography
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Elion, Gertrude B(elle)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1918–99)
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| biography:
| Pharmacologist, born in New York City, New York, USA. She taught in the New York City secondary school system and worked as a research chemist for several New York City companies before joining the Burroughs Wellcome Co (1944–83). There she began a 23-year professional collaboration with pharmacologist George Hitchings. She and Hitchings worked as a team to discover drugs for immunosuppression, gout, and bacterial, parasitic, and viral diseases; their anti-herpes treatment, acyclovir, was a breakthrough in antiviral research. In 1988 they shared, with James Black, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their many contributions to pharmaceutical research. |
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