# OnCo record gertrude-elion (person). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/people/gertrude-elion/>
  a schema:Person ;
  onco:kind "person" ;
  schema:identifier "gertrude-elion" ;
  schema:name "Gertrude Elion"@en ;
  schema:description "Without a doctorate, she and George Hitchings designed drugs to block DNA building blocks. Their 6-mercaptopurine of 1951 remains part of the cure for childhood leukaemia; she won the Nobel Prize in 1988."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/people/gertrude-elion/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_B._Elion> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q35703> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_B._Elion>, <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1988/elion/facts/> ;
  onco:tag "hero", "pioneer" ;
  schema:jobTitle "Chemist who designed 6-mercaptopurine and the first rational anticancer drugs" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/chemotherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/drug-discovery/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/cytotoxic-chemotherapy/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/tumor-lysis-syndrome/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-rare-cancers/> .