Nobel laureate Gertrude Elion helped develop drugs to treat herpes, gout & this, cancer of the bone marrow
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Gertrude Elion - Biography, Facts and Pictures - Famous Scientists  This discovery earned her Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1988 which she ... During this time she also planned to become a cancer researcher but for ... Elion helped develop the first drugs to combat leukemia, herpes, and AIDS, ... The medicines she developed include acyclovir (for herpes), allopurinol (for gout),...
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Gertrude B. Elion - Wikipedia  Gertrude Belle Elion (January 23, 1918  February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black. Working alone as well as with Hitchings and Black, Elion developed a multitude of new drugs, ... When she was 15, her grandfather died of cancer, instilling in her a desire to...
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The Legacy of Great Science: The Work of Nobel Laureate Gertrude ...  Sixty-two years after Gertrude Trudy Elion came to work for a predecessor ... who started the ball rolling toward developing the drug for pediatric patients, says ... herpes infection (Zovirax [acyclovir; GlaxoSmithKline]); a treatment for gout ..... Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
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curing childhood leukemia - National Academy of Sciences  including the cure for childhood leukemia described here, are based ... not only cancer, but also gout, ... The scientists who developed those drugs, which .... medicine resulted in the awarding of a Nobel Prize to ... is a disease of the blood and bone marrow. .... Gertrude Elion joined Hitchings' group in 1944, ... herpes, cold.
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Physiology or Medicine 1988 - Press Release - Nobelprize.org  Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings ... differences a series of drugs were developed that block nucleic acid synthesis in cancer ... acyclovir (1977), the first effective drug in the treatment of herpes virus infections. ... this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine concern the development of new...
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The Preventive Medicine Center of Gainesville  June/July 2011 ...  Oct 1, 2014 ... The chemicals bacteria release may be toxic or poisonous to human cells, or may ... killed only the harmful bacteria but not the healthy cells in the mice. ... came in 1939 from Nobel prize winning microbiologist, Selman Waksman. ... N.J., Waksman coined the term antibiotic to describe a substance that...
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Hermann Joseph Muller - Wikipedia  In 1946 Muller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, "for the discovery that mutations can be induced by x-rays". Genetics, and especially the...
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The 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Popular Information  Oct 8, 2003 ... ... concerning the water and ion channels of cells, this year's Nobel Laureates Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon, have contributed to fundamental ... Water molecules are not the only entities that pass into and out of the cell.
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Marie Curie and the radioactivity, The 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics  ... Prize together with her husband Frdric Joliot for the discovery of artificial radioactivity. ... Marie became interested in this discovery, and found a way to make precise radiation measurements. ... In 1898, they discovered two new elements - polonium and radium. Polonium was named after Marie's homeland, Poland.
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Converting Cancer Therapies into Cures: Lessons from Infectious ...  Mar 16, 2012 ... During the past decade, cancer drug development has shifted from a ... and bacterial infections, such as HIV and tuberculosis, are instructive for ... The history of targeted cancer therapy is much shorter than that of infectious diseases, but ... patients, could also transform current infectious diseases treatment.
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A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Ehrlich finds cure for ...  Ehrlich was looking for a cure or treatment for "sleeping sickness," a disease caused by a ... well but was a fairly strong arsenic compound, and arsenic was poisonous. ... In 1910 the drug was released, called Salvarsan, or sometimes just 606.
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Free Flashcards about FAMOUS WOMEN - StudyStack  IN 1995 THIS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE VISITED THE U.S. AND HELPED OPEN AN AIDS HOSPICE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN, MOTHER THERESA.
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Dr. John Bardeen, 82, Winner Of Nobel Prize for Transistor, Dies ...  Jan 31, 1991 ... A soft-spoken theoretical physicist, Dr. Bardeen was working with two other scientists, Walter Brattain ... Invention of the transistor earned the three men a Nobel Prize in 1956 and transformed science and industry. The tiny devices on silicon chips pushed aside the large, inefficient vacuum tubes for portable...
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Robert Koch and Tuberculosis - Nobelprize.org
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Alexis Carrel - Wikipedia  Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in ... There he did significant work on tissue cultures with pathologist Montrose ... In the 1930s, Carrel and Charles Lindbergh became close friends not only .... could not provide an artificial heart pump which would allow for heart surgery on...
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Gertrude Belle Elion facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Get information, facts, and pictures about Gertrude Belle Elion at Encyclopedia.com. ... Elion shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with James .... or azathioprine (Imuran), a prodrug for the 6-MP produced by the red blood ... In humans, kidney transplantation from unrelated donors became possible in...
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Marie & Pierre Curie's granddaughter, Hlne Langevin-Joliot, visits ...  Her grandmother won a second Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1911. ... Physicist Hlne Langevin-Joliot, granddaughter of Marie & Pierre Currie, during her ... my childhood, and my parents did not tell me that I had a very famous grandmother!
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Emil Fischer - Nobel Lecture - Nobelprize.org  I must therefore ask you to accept what I have to offer with the kind for- bearance ... leading part in the development of chemical theories. ... of uric acid and was discovered in this country 126 years ago simultaneously ... and syntheses have been carried out on the members of the purine group. ..... He compared the two...
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50 Universities with the Most Nobel Prize Winners ...  The school's Nobel-winning faculty affiliates have included economist Joseph E. ..... California Institute of Technology  Pasadena, California ... Local entrepreneur and political figure Amos G. Throop founded Throop University in 1891; the .... Many of Oxford's Nobel-winning graduates are familiar names: writers T.S. Eliot...
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Ask me a trivia question - Discussion on Topix  Dec 1, 2009 ... A Mr. Whipple shared the 1934 Nobel Prize for showing daily eating of this raw organ meat helps cure anemia. Reply . Report Abuse Judge it!
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Facts on the Nobel Prizes in Chemistry - Nobelprize.org  Oct 5, 2009 ... 63 Chemistry Prizes have been given to one Laureate only. ... Two of these four women, Marie Curie and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, ... All of them could receive the Nobel Prize Diploma and Medal later, but not the prize amount. ... Nature in the form of a goddess resembling Isis, emerging from the clouds...