Cori, Gerty

Carl Cori Gerty Cori (Austria/USA, glycogen metabolism), Bernardo Housay (Argentina, anterior pituitary carbohydrate metabolism) (Nobel Prize, Physiology/ Medicine, 1947) Luis Leloir (Argentina, Nobel Prize, Chemistry,... 

The observation that hexokinase preparations from ox retina react with D-glucose and D-fructose but not with 3-methyl D-glucose (M. Kerly, Biochem. J., 42, xx (1948)) has no bearing on this question, since animal hexokinase differs from yeast hexokinase (see Gerti T. Cori and M. W. Slein, Federation Proc., 6, No. 1 (1947)). 

Studies on the breakdown and synthesis of glycogen are particularly associated with the work of Carl and Gerti Cori in the 1930s and 1940s. They emigrated to the U.S. from Vienna in 1922 initially to Buffalo, N. Y. and later moved to Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis in 1931, when they worked together on carbohydrate metabolism, work for which they received a Nobel prize in 1947. 

Carl and Gerty Cori Pioneers in Glycogen Metabolism and Disease... 

Much of what is written in present-day biochemistry textbooks about the metabolism of glycogen was discovered between about 1925 and 1950 by the remarkable husband and wife team of Carl F. Cori and Gerty T. Cori. Both trained in medicine in Europe at the end of World War I (she completed premedical studies and medical school in one year ). They left Europe together in 1922 to establish research laboratories in the United States, first for nine years in Buffalo, New York, at what is now the Roswell Park Memorial Institute, then from 1931 until the end of their lives at Washington University in St. Louis. 

In the late 1930s, Carl and Gerty Cori (Box 15-1) discovered that the glycogen phosphorylase of skeletal muscle exists in two interconvertible forms glycogen phosphorylase a, which is catalytically active, and... 

Carl F. Cori and Gerty T. Cori Physiology/Medicine Glycogen metabolism, the Cori cycle... 

In the early 1940s, Carl Cori and Gerty Radnitz Cori discovered that phosphorylase exists in two forms, a and b,... 

Since we are assembled here today in the building of the National Academy of Sciences, one way to depict the mixed situation is to consider the number of women elected to the Academy. Between 1923—itself 60 years after the founding of the Academy during the Civil War—and 1970, ten women had been elected, including biochemist and Nobelist Gerty T. Cori. Ten women members in over 100 years is better than one woman president of the ACS, but it is still barely a trickle.12 After 1970 the situation improved notably, as shown in Table 1.1. Of the 60 persons who are elected each year, there... 

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