Gertrude B. Elion
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Biography
Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion 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.
"I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much."
"I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much."
"I think it's a very valuable thing for a doctor to learn how to do research, to learn how to approach research, something there isn't time to teach them in medical school. They don't really learn how to approach a problem, and yet diagnosis is a problem; and I think that year spent in research is extremely valuable to them."