21. Gertrude B. Elion - Autobiography with an addendum submitted by the Laureate. To cite this document, alwaysstate the source as shown above. gertrude B. elion died on February 21, 1999. http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1988/elion-autobio.html

HOME SITE HELP ABOUT SEARCH ... EDUCATIONAL I was born in New York City on a cold January night when the water pipes in our apartment froze and burst. Fortunately, my mother was in the hospital rather than at home at the time. My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher education in New York City and graduated in 1914 from the New York University School of Dentistry. My mother came at the age of 14 from a part of Russia which, after the war, became Poland; she was only 19 when she was married to my father. My first seven years were spent in a large apartment in Manhattan where my father had his dental office, with our living quarters adjoining it. My brother was born about six years after I was, and shortly thereafter we moved to the Bronx, which was then considered a suburb of New York City. There were still many open lots where children could play and large parks, including the Bronx Zoo, to which I was very much devoted. My brother and I had a happy childhood. We went to a public school within walking distance of our house. Our classrooms were generally quite crowded, but we received a good basic education. I was a child with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and remember enjoying all of my courses almost equally. When it came time at the end of my high school career to choose a major in which to specialize I was in a quandary. One of the deciding factors may have been that my grandfather, whom I loved dearly, died of cancer when I was 15. I was highly motivated to do something that might eventually lead to a cure for this terrible disease. When I entered Hunter College in 1933, I decided to major in science and, in particular, chemistry.

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23. Gertrude B. Elion Winner Of The 1988 Nobel Prize In Medicine gertrude B. elion, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine, at theNobel Prize Internet Archive. http://almaz.com/nobel/medicine/1988b.html

G ERTRUDE B E LION 1988 Nobel Laureate in Medicine for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment. Background Born: 1918-Feb 21,1999 Place of Birth: New York City, U.S.A. Affiliation: Wellcome Research Laboratories, Research Triangle Park, NC Book Store Gertrude Elion : Master Chemist (Masters of Invention) by Stephanie St. Pierre (Library Binding - June 1993) Books on the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Featured Internet Links Prize co-recipient: Sir James W. Black Prize co-recipient: George H. Hitchings Official award announcement and background Biography ... PubMedline search results for this laureate Search WWW Search The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Nobel News Links Nobelist Enters Hall of Fame 3 Share Nobel for Medicine Honoring Drug Discoverers Links added by Nobel Internet Archive visitors Gertrude B. Elion page by Ronald J. Riley (submitted by Ronald J. Riley SCIENCE HERO: GERTRUDE B. ELION (submitted by Davis Brown) Gertrude Belle Elion Biography (submitted by Mike) Back to The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Literature Peace Chemistry ... Medicine We always welcome your feedback and comments

24. Gertrude B. Elion, January 23, 1918—February 21, 1999 | By Mary Ellen Avery | B gertrude B. elion January 23, 1918 — February 21, 1999 By Mary Ellen Avery.IN THE SPRING OF 1933 gertrude elion graduated from high school and that summer http://www.nap.edu/html/biomems/gelion.html

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS National Academy of Sciences Gertrude B. Elion By Mary Ellen Avery I N THE SPRING OF 1933 Gertrude Elion graduated from high school and that summer she had to select a major subject before she could begin her freshman year at Hunter College. This posed a quandary for the future Nobel Prize recipient, as well as holder of 45 patents, 23 honorary degrees, and a long list of other honors: She had liked all her school subjects, making it difficult to select just one. "I loved to learn everything, everything in sight and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses." Fatefully, that summer her grandfather, whom she loved dearly, died of cancer. "I watched him go over a period of months in a very painful way, and it suddenly occurred to me that what I really needed to do was to become a scientist, and particularly a chemist, so that I would go out there and make a cure for cancer." (All quotations in this memoir are from the author's taped 1997 interview with G. B. Elion). Become a scientist she did, and along the way she synthesized and co-developed two of the first successful drugs for the treatment of leukemia (thioguanine and mercaptopurine), as well as azathioprine (Imuran), an agent to prevent the rejection of kidney transplants and to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Trudy (as she was called by her many friends) also played a major role in the development of allopurinol for the treatment of gout and of acyclovir, the first selective antiviral agent that was effective against herpes virus infections.

25. Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.78 (2000) Biographical Memoirs VOLUME 78 gertrude B. elion January 23, 1918–February 21,1999 BY MARY ELLEN AVERY IN THE SPRING OF 1933 gertrude elion graduated from http://www.nap.edu/books/030907035X/html/16.html

Read more than 3,000 books online FREE! More than 900 PDFs now available for sale HOME ABOUT NAP CONTACT NAP HELP ... ORDERING INFO Items in cart [0] TRY OUR SPECIAL DISCOVERY ENGINE Questions? Call 888-624-8373 Biographical Memoirs V.78 (2000) National Academy of Sciences ( NAS Find More Like This Book Research ... Dashboard NEW! BUY This Book CHAPTER SELECTOR: Openbook Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-viii Robert Cooley Elderfield, pp. 1-15 Gertrude B. Elion, pp. 16-29 Edward Vaughan Evarts, pp. 30-43 Edward C. Franklin, pp. 44-63 Clifford Grobstein, pp. 64-93 Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, pp. 94-107 Philip F. Low, pp. 108-127 Robert Franklin Mehl, pp. 128-145 Robert Sanderson Mulliken, pp. 146-165 William D. Phillips, pp. 166-181 Edward Mills Purcell, pp. 182-205 Reed Clark Rollins, pp. 206-221 Stanley Schachter, pp. 222-235 Glenn Theodore Seaborg, pp. 236-257 George Frederick Sprague, pp. 258-275 Robert Julius Trumpler, pp. 276-297 George Wald, pp. 298-317 John C. Warner, pp. 318-333 Jerome Bert Wiesner, pp. 334-353 Alfred P. Wolf, pp. 354-367

26. George H. Hitchings: Definition And Much More From Answers.com where he and fellow researcher gertrude B. elion developed drug treatmentsfor leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, 1988 in science gertrude B. elion http://www.answers.com/topic/george-h-hitchings

showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Dictionary Encyclopedia Medical WordNet Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping George H. Hitchings Dictionary Hitch·ings hĭch ĭngz George Herbert American biochemist. He shared a 1988 Nobel Prize for developing drugs to treat leukemia and gout. Encyclopedia Hitchings, George Herbert, 1905–98, American pharmacologist, b. Hoquiam, Wash., Ph.D. Harvard, 1933. Hitchings spent most of his career at Burroughs Wellcome Laboratories (1942–75), where he and fellow researcher Gertrude B. Elion developed drug treatments for leukemia, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, viral herpes, urinary and respiratory tract infections, and AIDS. In 1988 the pair shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with British pharmacologist Sir James Black Medical Hitch·ings hĭch ĭngz George Herbert Born 1905. American biochemist. He shared a 1988 Nobel Prize for developing drugs to treat leukemia and gout. WordNet Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

27. Elion, Gertrude Belle gertrude B. elion, 1991. Copyright Jim Stratford/Black Star. (b. Jan. 23, 1918,New York, NY, US), American pharmacologist who, along with George H. http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/190_14.html

Elion, Gertrude Belle Gertrude B. Elion, 1991 (b. Jan. 23, 1918, New York, N.Y., U.S.), 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. Elion graduated from Hunter College in New York City with a degree in biochemistry in 1937. Finding it difficult to obtain a research position because she was a woman, she taught chemistry in high school until joining the Burroughs Wellcome Laboratories in 1944. There she was first the assistant and then the colleague of Hitchings, with whom she worked for the next four decades. The two scientists developed an array of new drugs that were effective against leukemia, autoimmune disorders, urinary-tract infections, gout, malaria, and viral herpes. Their success was due primarily to their innovative research methods, which marked a radical departure from the trial-and-error approach taken by previous pharmacologists. Elion and Hitchings pointedly examined the difference between the biochemistry of normal human cells and those of cancer cells, bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens (disease-causing agents). They then used this information to formulate drugs that could kill or inhibit the reproduction of a particular pathogen, leaving the human host's normal cells undamaged. The two reseachers' new emphasis on understanding basic biochemical and physiological processes enabled them to eliminate much guesswork and wasted effort typical previously in developing new therapeutic drugs.

28. Elion, Gertrude B. --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia elion, gertrude B. (1918–99). US pharmacologist gertrude B. elion received theNobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1988 along with George H. Hitchings http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9322341

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31. The My Hero Project - Gertrude B. Eliongertrudebelion My hero is Dr. gertrude Belle elion. She is an American hero because she savedthe lives of many sick people. gertrude B. elion by Susannah Abbey http://myhero.com/myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=gertrudebelion

32. Super Scientists - Gertrude B. Elion Energy Quest is the California Energy Commission s energy and environmentaleducation site for students, parents and teachers. http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/scientists/elion.html

Gertrude B. Elion Like Rosalyn Yalow , Elion was admitted to Hunter College in New York at an early age. Elion began her classes at the women's college at the age of 15. Four years later, she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in chemistry. She went on to earn a masters degree in chemistry at New York University before going to work for George Hitchings. Elion eventually became a partner with Hitchings doing biochemical research. Their work resulted in the development of a variety of drugs, including the AIDS drug, AZT, a drug to treat acute leukemia and another that made kidney transplants possible between unrelated donors. The world's first medication that could kill a virus, which Elion and Hitchings developed together, is often used to treat herpes. Elion's work earned 45 patents. She shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 with George Hitchings and James Black. More information about Gertrude B. Elion Bio of Gertrude B. Elion National Institute of Health, Women in Science and Health Network (Wish-net) Gertrude B. Elion, Scientist Hero

33. Women In Science - Biology - Gertrude B. Elion Perlman gertrude B. elion lost her closest companion, her grandfather, at the age offifteen. In 1944, gertrude B. elion was hired by the pharmaceutical company http://library.thinkquest.org/20117/perlman.html

Gertrude B. Elion Perlman Gertrude B. Elion lost her closest companion, her grandfather, at the age of fifteen. The loss of her grandfather made her become determined to cancer research. She began to study Chemistry at Hunter College and graduated with highest honors at age 19. Even with this extremely high academic record, her graduate application was turned down by fifteen graduate programs. Despite this major adversity, she was determined and took a job as an unpaid laboratory assistant. In 1944, Gertrude B. Elion was hired by the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Welcome to do work with nucleic acids. During her 39 year career at Burroughs Welcome, Gertrude and a collaborator developed a drug, 6-mercaplopurine, that is used in chemotherapy to treat children with leukemia. She received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988 for the development of drugs such as azathioprine. These and other drugs aid in organ transplant surgery by keeping the body from rejecting the new organ. A plaque awarded to Dr. Gertrude Elion by Ohio State University may best sum up her life's work:

34. Encyclopedia: Gertrude B. Elion Other descriptions of gertrude B. elion. gertrude B. elion (January 23, gertrude elion died in 1999, aged 81. She was unmarried and had no children. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Gertrude-B.-Elion

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35. Elion, Gertrude B. elion, gertrude B. (19181999). I was born in New York City on a cold Januarynight when the water pipes in our apartment froze and burst. http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/E/Elion/Elion.ht

Elion, Gertrude B. I was born in New York City on a cold January night when the water pipes in our apartment froze and burst. Fortunately, my mother was in the hospital rather than at home at the time. My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher education in New York City and graduated in 1914 from the New York University School of Dentistry. My mother came at the age of 14 from a part of Russia which, after the war, became Poland; she was only 19 when she was married to my father. My first seven years were spent in a large apartment in Manhattan where my father had his dental office, with our living quarters adjoining it. My brother was born about six years after I was, and shortly thereafter we moved to the Bronx, which was then considered a suburb of New York City. There were still many open lots where children could play and large parks, including the Bronx Zoo, to which I was very much devoted. My brother and I had a happy childhood. We went to a public school within walking distance of our house. Our classrooms were generally quite crowded, but we received a good basic education. I was a child with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and remember enjoying all of my courses almost equally. When it came time at the end of my high school career to choose a major in which to specialize I was in a quandary. One of the deciding factors may have been that my grandfather, whom I loved dearly, died of cancer when I was 15. I was highly motivated to do something that might eventually lead to a cure for this terrible disease. When I entered Hunter College in 1933, I decided to major in science and, in particular, chemistry.

36. Elion Award | American Association For Cancer Research The annual AACRgertrude B. elion Cancer Research Award fosters This awardhonors the late Dr. gertrude B. elion, Scientist Emeritus at Glaxo Wellcome http://www.aacr.org/page3859.aspx

@import url(css/style1.css); Home About Us Scientists Membership Font Size: a a a Send to a Colleague ... Advanced Search Quick Links 2005 Complete Final Program in PDF Format Meeting Calendar 2005 AACR Annual Meeting Public Forum Become a Member Home Scientists Research Funding Research Funding ... Travel Grants Username Password Register AACR-Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award Online Application Opens: September 1, 2005 Application Deadline: December 1, 2005 Grant Term Begins: July 1, 2006 The annual AACR-Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award fosters meritorious basic, translational, or clinical cancer research by a tenure-track scientist at the level of Assistant Professor. The award recognizes research excellence in cancer etiology, diagnosis, treatment, or prevention. It provides a one-year grant of $50,000 for salary and benefits, laboratory supplies, and limited domestic travel. Attendance at the AACR 97th Annual Meeting to accept the award is mandatory and the recipient will be required to give a presentation of their research in a minisymposium at the AACR 98th Annual Meeting. This award honors the late Dr. Gertrude B. Elion, Scientist Emeritus at Glaxo Wellcome Co. (now GlaxoSmithKline). Her seminal research at the company revolutionized cancer therapeutics and her prolific contributions to biomedical science earned her the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988. The AACR is extremely pleased to sponsor this award in the name of Dr. Elion, a distinguished Past President and Honorary Member of the AACR.

37. Elion Award | American Association For Cancer Research AACRgertrude B. elion Cancer Research Award Recipients Research Award is agreat honor, as I can only aspire to what Dr. gertrude B. elion achieved. http://www.aacr.org/page3854.aspx

@import url(css/style1.css); Home About Us Scientists Membership Font Size: a a a Send to a Colleague ... Advanced Search Quick Links 2005 Complete Final Program in PDF Format Meeting Calendar 2005 AACR Annual Meeting Public Forum Become a Member Home Scientists Research Funding Research Grant Recipients ... Professorship Username Password Register AACR-Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award Recipients 2005: Gerard C. Blobe, M.D., Ph.D. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC Identification of mechanisms for the dichotomous function of TGF-beta in mammary carcinogenesis Receipt of the AACR-Gertrude B. Elion Cancer Research Award is a great honor, as I can only aspire to what Dr. Gertrude B. Elion achieved. Receipt of this Award also creates the opportunity to immediately begin to address some high-risk/high-impact questions in the lab and couldn't have come at a better time." 2004: Blossom A. Damania, Ph.D. Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 2003: Yi Zhang, Ph.D. Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

38. National Academy Of Sciences - Deceased Member elion, gertrude B. Date of Birth, January 23, 1918. Elected to NAS, 1990.Date of Death, February 21, 1999. Biographical Memoir HTML PDF. http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nasdece.nsf/(urllinks)/NAS-58MVQJ?opendocu

39. JCE Online: Biographical Snapshots: Snapshot McGrayne, SB gertrude B. elion, January 23, 1918, Biochemist, Nobel Prize 1988.In Nobel Prize Women in Science Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCEWWW/Features/eChemists/Bios/Elion.html

Subscriptions Software Orders Support Contributors ... Biographical Snapshots Biographical Snapshots of Famous Women and Minority Chemists: Snapshot This short biographical "snapshot" provides basic information about the person's chemical work, gender, ethnicity, and cultural background. A list of references is given along with additional WWW sites to further your exploration into the life and work of this chemist. Gertrude Belle Elion Born: Major discipline: Biochemistry Died: Minor discipline: Gertrude Belle Elion was an industrial biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 for the development of the antiviral drug acyclovir for cancer treatment. A daughter of immigrants from central Europe, she was born in New York City on January 23, 1918. In high school Elion earned very high grades and so was admitted to Hunter College, the women's section of the City College of New York. Despite economic hardships, she graduated from Hunter College in 1937 with highest honors. It wasn't until 1942 that Elion was able to secure laboratory positions, both of which turned out to be temporary. In 1944 she was hired by Burroughs Wellcome Company (later to be Glaxo Wellcome), which specialized in pharmaceuticals. She and George Hutchings worked together, basing their research on a knowledge of basic biochemical and physiological processes, rather than the trial and error methods being used at the time. For this work they won the Nobel Prize. During her time at Burroughs Wellcome Company, Elion also developed drugs for leukemia treatment (6-MP), organ transplants (Imuran), and AIDS (AZT)40 patents bear her name. In addition to the Nobel Prize, Gertrude Elion received the Garvan Medal in 1968 and the National Medal of Science in 1991. She retired from Glaxo Wellcome in 1983. Gertrude Belle Elion died on February 21, 1999 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Search BookRags.com English History Other Subjects Essays Biographies Research Topics eBooks Register Login Help Literature Study Guides ... Games Welcome, Guest Why not Login or Register Biography Navigation Main Biography How to Cite Order the PDF Home Biography Gertrude B. Elion Main Biography Complete Biographical Resource See related items by keyword: new york york nobel prize nobel ... acyclovir Name: Gertrude B. Elion Birth Date: Death Date: February 21, 1999 Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States of America Place of Death: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America Nationality: American Gender: Female Occupations: scientist, biochemist Gertrude B. Elion Main Biography The American biochemist Gertrude B. Elion (1918-1999) won a Nobel Prize for her scientific discovery of drugs to treat leukemia and herpes and to prevent the rejection of kidney transplants. Born in New York City in 1918, Gertrude Elion graduated from Hunter College with a B.A. degree in chemistry in 1937. In the midst of the Great Depression it was difficult for a woman to find a job in science. Elion had decided while still in high school to become a cancer researcher but for several years worked as a lab assistant, food analyst, and high school teacher while completing her Masters degree at night. She received an M.S. in chemistry from New York University in 1941. During World War II, women were needed in scientific laboratories and Elion was hired as a biochemist by the Wellcome Research Laboratories, then in Tuckahoe, New York. There she worked for many years with George Herbert Hitchings, co-recipient with Gertrude Elion of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 198.....

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