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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
Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology – Annual Reviews
Published: Apr 1, 1993
Keywords: antimetabolites; purines; leukemia; transplantation; antivirals; Nobel Prize
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