This is a first attempt for a student to produce a Power Point presentation for class.

1. Gertrude ElionBy: Shyla Gertrude Elion created the 6-mercaptopurine or a treatment for leukemia.

2. Gertrude Elion Gertrude was born on January 23, 1918. She grew up in New York City. She graduated from Hunter College in 1937 and New York University in 1941. She could not obtain a graduate research position due to her gender so she worked as a lab assistant and a high school teacher. Later, she left to work as an assistant to George H. Hitchings at the Burroughs-Wellcome pharmaceutical company

3. Gertrude Elion continued… She never obtained a formal PhD, but was later awarded an honorary PhD from Polytechnic University of New York in 1989 and honorary SD degree from Harvard university in 1998. In 1988 Elion received the Nobel Prize in Medicine, together with Hitchings and Sir James Black. Other awards include the National Medal Of Science (1991)and the Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award (1997). In 1991 she became the first woman to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall Of Fame. Gertrude Elion Died on February 20 1999.

4. 6-mercaptopurine 6-mercaptopurine it is used to treat leukemia. It is also used for pediatric non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, polycythemia vera, psoriatic arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease. It was invented in 1950.It was not patented.

5. Answers I feel that this should have the Student Choice Award because without this invention I bet millions of people would have died. And if some of those people who would have died probably invented something very useful that we have today. That’s why I feel that this invention should receive the Student Choice Award.

6. Answer… This invention has changed our lives because many people with leukemia need to have this invention to survive. If we did not have this invention those people would either be very sick or dead.