Awards & Winners

Gertrude B. Elion

Date of Birth 23-January-1918
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Gertrude Elion, Gertrude Belle Elion
Profession Scientist, Chemist
Gertrude Belle Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, and a 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Working alone as well as with George H. Hitchings, Elion developed a multitude of new drugs, using innovative research methods that would later lead to the development of the AIDS drug AZT.

Awards by Gertrude B. Elion

Check all the awards nominated and won by Gertrude B. Elion.

1991


National Medal of Science for Chemistry
(For her basic research which enhanced the sciences of chemistry and medicine by elucidating fundamental principles of drug-receptor interactions for nucleic acid antagonists.)

1988


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment)