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What Inspired Elion to Become a Scientist?
Elion was inspired to become a scientist after her grandfather died of stomach cancer when she was 15.
“I knew I wanted to find a cure for cancer, and from then on, I never looked back.”
After earning a master’s degree in chemistry, she had a difficult time finding a job in a laboratory.
But World War II opened up doors for women in science, and pharmaceutical company Burroughs-Wellcome hired her.
Elion’s discoveries include a treatment for childhood leukemia, drugs that help make organ transplants possible, and a medicine that fights malaria.
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Email this to a friend!
This sailboarder ripples anything it crosses! Send it to your friends
so they can learn about Newman Darby, the inventor of the sailboard.
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