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Gertrude Belle Elion was born in NYC, 1918. At the age of 15, she attended Hunter College. She later received her masters degree at New York University. She was once told that because she was a woman she would be a distraction in the lab.
In 1953 she developed a leukemia fighting drug called 6-marcaptopurine. Because of this drug, the survival rate up to 80%! In 1962, she developed interjection drugs which helped with kidney transplants. In 1983, Gertrude Belle Elion retired. In 1991 she was inducted in the Inventers Hall of Fame. In 1988, she shared the Nobel Prize with George Hitchings, her colleague of 40 years. On February 21, 1999, Gertrude Belle Elion passed away. She received 45 Patents in her lifetime.