Gertrude Elion receives part of the medicine prize for systematic approaches to designing effective drugs. Her work contributed to therapies for leukaemia, gout and viral infections by exploiting biochemical differences between diseased and healthy cells.
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Gertrude Belle Elion
Nobel Prize history for Gertrude Belle Elion based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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