Biographical Memoirs Volume 78 (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude B. Elion
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This postal a quandary for the future Nobel Prize recipient, as well as homer of 45 patents, 23 honorary degrees, en c! a long list of other honors: She hacl likocl all her school subjects, making it clifficult to select just one.
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Her homemaker mother arrived in the United States from Polanc! at the age of fourteen.
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in 1941 from New York University. During her graduate studies, she started teaching high school chemistry en cl physics as a "permanent substitute" for $7.50 a clay.
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. One of the things we hacl in mind was to inhibit what kills cancer cells." By 1949 Trudy had synthesized a purine that inhibited growth in mouse leukemia, which Joseph Burchenal at Sloan Kettering Institute in New York user!
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As a consultant she was also able to maintain her association with her former employer, now Glaxo Welicome, Inc., in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. She attracted many associates who became known as a research ciream team, some of whom invented aziclothymicline (AZT)
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Trucly remained active in research en cl professional organizations and held adjunct professorships at Duke University, the University of North Carolina, en c! Ohio State University.
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D Anderson Cancer Center en cl the Mecial of Honor from the American Cancer Society in 1990, and 23 honorary degrees.
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She had researched scientists on the Internet and had selected Trudy as her heroine. Her mother subsequently sent me photos of the girl ciressecl in a lab coat, howling a beaker, en cl with an imitation Nobel mecial arounc!
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Trucly colIapsecl en cl was taken to the University of North Carolina Hospital in Chapel Hill, where she cliecl at midnight at age eighty-one. She was never usecl up.
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Car., for the Alpha Omega Alpha Oral History Project, May 1997. Les Prix Nobel.
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Stak. Preliminary studies on the effect of 2,6-diaminopurine on transplanted mouse leukemia.
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Inhibition of acyclovir of herpes simplex virus type 2 morphologically transformed cell growth in tissue culture and tumor-bearing animals.
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Therapeutic efficacy of vinorelbine against pediatric and adult central nervous system tumors. Cancer Chemother.
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