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The Quest for a Cure

The Quest for a Cure Gertrude B. Elion Wellcome Research Laboratories, Burroughs Wellcome Co., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 KEY WORDS: antimetabolites, purines, leukemia, transplantation, antivirals THE BEGINNINGS As I look back on my life and career and wonder what were the influences and events that shaped them, I realize how little one appreciates what is happening at the time it occurs. The love and support of my parents, which I took more or less for granted while I was growing up, allowed me to take the "road less traveled by" and to persist in the face of considerable obstacles. Who were these parents? My father, who graduated from New York University School of Dentistry in 1914, had come to the United States from Lithuania as a small boy. My mother came from Russia in 1911 at the age of 1 4 . By the time she was 19, she was married to my father who had then been a dentist for two years. A year and a half later I was born. Although my mother never had a college education, she was a prodigious reader and the scope of her reading was astounding. My father also loved to read and I http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology Annual Reviews

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Publisher
Annual Reviews
Copyright
Copyright 1993 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
Subject
Review Articles
ISSN
0362-1642
eISSN
1545-4304
DOI
10.1146/annurev.pa.33.040193.000245
pmid
8494337
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Abstract

Gertrude B. Elion Wellcome Research Laboratories, Burroughs Wellcome Co., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 KEY WORDS: antimetabolites, purines, leukemia, transplantation, antivirals THE BEGINNINGS As I look back on my life and career and wonder what were the influences and events that shaped them, I realize how little one appreciates what is happening at the time it occurs. The love and support of my parents, which I took more or less for granted while I was growing up, allowed me to take the "road less traveled by" and to persist in the face of considerable obstacles. Who were these parents? My father, who graduated from New York University School of Dentistry in 1914, had come to the United States from Lithuania as a small boy. My mother came from Russia in 1911 at the age of 1 4 . By the time she was 19, she was married to my father who had then been a dentist for two years. A year and a half later I was born. Although my mother never had a college education, she was a prodigious reader and the scope of her reading was astounding. My father also loved to read and I

Journal

Annual Review of Pharmacology and ToxicologyAnnual Reviews

Published: Apr 1, 1993

Keywords: antimetabolites; purines; leukemia; transplantation; antivirals; Nobel Prize

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