Gerty Theresa Cori Facts
Gerty Theresa Cori Facts
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| Interesting Gerty Theresa Cori Facts: |
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| Cori was born Gerty Theresa Radnitz in Prague in 1896. |
| Her father, Otto Radnitz was a chemist who invented a method for refining sugar. |
| Her uncle was a pediatrician who encouraged her interest in medicine and in 1914 she passed the entrance exam and was admitted to Karl Ferdinands Universitat in Prague. |
| She and her future husband, Carl Ferdinand Cori both graduated from medical school in 1920. |
| Because increasing anti-Semitism in Europe, the couple emigrated to the United States in 1922 and became citizens in 1928. |
| While working together at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, they discovered the mechanism by which glycogen is broken down into lactic acid in the muscles and stored as a source of energy, a physiological process now known as the Cori cycle. |
| They also identified the catalyzing compound known as the Cori ester and proved that it is the beginning step in the conversion of glycogen into glucose. |
| In 1943 she became an associate professor of Research Biological Chemistry at Washington University School of Medicine where he husband was a researcher. |
| In 1943 she was made a full professor. |
| In 1947 the Coris shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Bernardo Houssay for their work in carbohydrate metabolism. |
| Their work clarifying the mechanisms of carbohydrate metabolism was critical to the development of treatments for diabetes. |
| In 1953 she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
| In 2004 they both received recognition as a National Historic Chemical Landmark for their work. |
| Among her honors a craters on the Moon and on Venus are named for her. |
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