Eleanor Zaimis

Eleanor Christides Zaimis (16 June 1915 – 3 October 1982) was a Greek-British academic who was professor at Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, often referred to as "Nora". She was the recipient of the 1959 Gairdner Foundation International Award for study of methonium compounds and other pharmacology contributions.

Zaimis was elected to the British Pharmacological Society Hall of Fame. Her father, John Cristides worked in shipping and her mother, Helen Hanoutsos was the daughter of a landowner. She was educated at the Greek Gymnasium and graduated in medicine at the University of Athens in 1938. During the next nine years, she gained an MD and a BSc in chemistry. In 1947, she went to England as a British Council scholar where she initially worked in the department of pharmacology at Bristol University and later at the National Institute for Medical Research, she then moved to the department of pharmacology at the school of pharmacy, University of London. In 1954, she was appointed as a reader and head of the pharmacology department at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. In 1956, she was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh.

Publications Textbook on Hygiene, 1948 Evaluation of new drugs in man, 1963 Nerve growth factor and its antiserum, 1972 Neuromuscular junction, 1976