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Letter from Sharyn Cohn to Gertrude Elion, March 3, 1998

Letter from Sharyn Cohn to Gertrude Elion, March 3, 1998
Letter from Sharyn Cohn, kidney transplant recipient, to Gertrude Elion, March 3, 1998.
Courtesy of the Estate of Gertrude B. Elion.
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3 March 1998
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Estate of Gertrude B. Elion
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Cohn, Sharyn
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March 3, 1998
Tuesday
Dear Dr. Elion,
We have not met yet but do hope that one day we will. I'm Sharyn Cohn, a kidney transplant patient who wrote to you many years ago, congratulating you and Dr. Hitchings for winning the Nobel Prize in Medicine. It has been over 16 years that I had the kidney transplant from my brother and have been on Imuran. During the summer, Mary Ann Bella interviewed me for the Dr. Elion documentary. I look forward to seeing the completed project.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Letter from Sharyn Cohn to Gertrude Elion, March 3, 1998." (Viewed on December 21, 2024) <https://jwa.org/media/letter-from-sharyn-cohn-kidney-transplant-recipient-to-gertrude-elion>.