About Gertrude B. Elion
[Wikidata] American biochemist and pharmacologist (1918–1999)... | [Wikipedia] 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. This new method focused on
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