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 children with acute leukemia into remission. It would become one of the first chemotherapy drugs and would later form the basis for a new, "rational" approach to designing drugs.
