Dr George Hitchings,winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in medicine for recognition of over 40 years of work in developing a range of drugs to fight leukaemia,malaria,gout,organ transplant rejection,herpes virus infection and bacterial infection. Hitchings shared the prize with Dr Gertrude Elion,a colleague at Burroughs-Wellcome Research Laboratories in the U.S. since 1945 and Sir James Black,of Kings College Hospital Medical School,London. Black developed the world's first beta-blockers,drugs that relieve the symptoms of heart disease,and went on to develop cimetidine,a drug used to treat gastric ulcers |