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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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During her lifetime, biochemist and pharmacologist Gertrude Elion worked to develop drugs to treat leukemia and prevent rejection in kidney transplant recipients, as well as revolutionary drug treatments and research methods for diseases like malaria and AIDS. Charlotte Cooper. She won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988. Marie Curie.

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