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"What greater joy can you have than to know what an impact your work has had on people's lives? The thrill of seeing people get well who otherwise might have died cannot be described in words." -Gertrude Elion

Gertrude ELION
Shunning traditional trial-and-error methods for finding effective treatments, biochemist Gertrude Elion took an innovative "pathways" approach that relied on determining how cells use chemicals to reproduce and grow. Her research led to the development of drugs to combat several serious medical conditions, including leukemia, malaria, viral herpes, and AIDS.

1918 Gertrude Belle Elion is born in New York, New York.
1933 - When her grandfather dies of cancer, Elion decides to devote her life to medical research.
1937 - Graduates with highest honor from Hunter College.
1941 - Elion receives a master's in chemistry. Tragically, her fiancé dies from a bacterial infection that could have been cured with penicillin, available just a few years later.
1944 - After working two years as a food chemist, Elion begins working in the lab of George Hitchings at the pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome.
1950 - Elion synthesizes 6-Mercaptopurine, which helps to cure childhood leukemia.
1959 - Opens the field of organ transplantation with creation of immunosuppressant drug Imuran.
1967 - Elion is appointed head of the Experimental Therapy lab, becoming the first woman to lead a major research group at Burroughs Wellcome.
1970 - Elion's lab develops acyclovir, the first medicine to treat viral infections.
1984 - After Elion's retirement in 1983, her lab uses her methodology to develop AZT, the first drug that offers promise in treating AIDS.
1988 - Elion receives a Nobel Prize for her rational method of drug design and her research in chemotherapy.
1991 - Elion receives the National Medal of Science, the United States' highest scientific honor.
1999 Gertrude Elion dies on February 21 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.