HITCHINGS, GEORGE HERBERT


Meaning of HITCHINGS, GEORGE HERBERT in English

born April 18, 1905, Hoquiam, Wash., U.S.

died Feb. 27, 1998, Chapel Hill, N.C.

U.S. pharmacologist.

He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Over nearly 40 years, he and Gertrude Elion designed a variety of new drugs that work by interfering with replication or other vital functions of specific disease-causing agents; these drugs include those to treat leukemia, severe rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases (also useful for suppressing rejection after organ transplants), gout, malaria, urinary and respiratory-tract infections, and herpes simplex. In 1988 he shared a Nobel Prize with Elion and James Black .

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