James Black And Gertrude Elion's Study

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In 1988 the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine had been awarded to British researcher James Black (from King’s College London) and two Americans Gertrude Elion and George Hitchings (from Burroughs welcome company in research triangle park, North Carolina) (1). James Black was recognised for creating drugs for treating peptic ulcers and heart disease. The two Americans were honoured in their work in developing drugs for treating gout, malaria, viral infections e.g. herpes and cancer (1). The Approaches the two parties took where totally different, Black solely focussed upon the cell surface receptors to which hormones and various physiological agents must bind to apply fully their effects on their target organs (1). In a few instances