# Gertrude Elion (@gertrude-elion)

Gertrude Elion was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who helped create rationally designed drugs for leukemia, transplantation, infections, and gout.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Gertrude Elion's public record._

## Topics

- [Rational drug design](/@gertrude-elion/drug-design.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Medicines](/@gertrude-elion/medicines.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Nobel recognition](/@gertrude-elion/nobel.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1988/elion/biographical/
- blog: https://history.nih.gov/display/history/Elion%2C+Gertrude
- blog: https://www.invent.org/inductees/gertrude-belle-elion

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "gertrude-elion", "question": "…"}`.