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Gertrude Elion
In 1988, Gertrude Belle Elion and her colleagues shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their innovations in drug therapy. She was an American pharmacologist who collaborated with Dr. George H Hitchings to create AZT, an antiviral medication used to treat AIDS. She also produced medications to treat malaria, leukaemia, and herpes during her four-decade relationship with Hitchings.
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