Special Women to Have Won the Nobel Prize with Their Remarkable Contributions

Gertrude Belle Elion

Drugs work well if important principles of their treatment are duly followed. Thanks to the discovery of this fact by pharmacologist and biochemist Gertrude Belle Elion in conjunction with Sir James Black and George H. Hitchings. The three scientists bagged the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their troubles.

Trudy, as she was famously known in some quarters, and her colleagues used innovative ways to rationally design new medicine. Her work focused on understanding a drug’s target instead of just using trial and error. Watching her grandfather die of cancer pushed her to fight the illness. She developed the first anti-retroviral drug used against AIDS.

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