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Biochemist Dr. Ida Stephens Owens mapped how human genes control drug metabolism.
The first Black woman to earn a PhD from Duke (1967), she spent ~50 years at NIH. She identified the UGT1A gene complex, decoding how enzymes detoxify drugs & harmful toxins. She was born #OTD in 1939.🧵
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