It was a very important finding for us because we were involved in nucleic acids. There weren’t many people interested in nucleic acids. There weren’t many people who believed that was the way to find drugs. But when we found out the structure, and we began to understand what kind of bases could be incorporated, and which ones couldn’t, and where they could be incorporated, it put a whole new dimension on it. So it had a very significant effect.
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Gertrude B. Elion
Biochemist and pharmacologist; Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine
United States · 1918–1999
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Pharmacologist at Burroughs Wellcome who, with George Hitchings, developed drugs for leukaemia, gout, malaria, herpes and the rejection of transplanted organs. Shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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