Hilda Tracy worked at University of Liverpool, UK, with Rod Gregory FRS to isolate and characterise the gastrointestinal hormone gastrin.
10 Facts About Hilda Tracy
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Hilda Tracy led the structure-function studies and had the first insight into gastrin's role in the clinical pathology of pancreatic Zollinger-Ellison tumours.
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Hilda Tracy was born on 14 October 1927 and was one of 4 children.
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Hilda Tracy was seconded to the University of Liverpool and joined the newly appointed Rod Gregory, Holt Professor of Physiology, and Head of Department, as a research assistant in 1950.
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Hilda Tracy was a lecturer in the Department of Physiology from 1958 until she retired in 1993.
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Hilda Tracy married in the 1950s and had two children.
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Hilda Tracy led in the structure-function studies, leading to development of a short peptide as a pharmaceutical.
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Hilda Tracy drove this aspect of their research forwards that involved collaborations in the USA.
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In 2017 the annual Hilda Tracy Lecture was inaugurated in the Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, the successor organisation to where she worked.
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Hilda Tracy was author or co-author of over 32 scientific publications.