Milestone: Chemotherapy agent sends leukemia into remission
Date: Dec. 6, 1954
Where: Sloan Kettering Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York
Who: Gertrude Elion and colleagues
In 1954, researchers described a new drug that sent…
Science history: Female chemist initially barred from research helps helps develop drug for remarkable-but-short-lived recovery in children with leukemia — Dec. 6, 1954
