biography
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Cori, Gerty T(heresa)
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née Radnitz
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pronunciation:
[koree]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1896–1957)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She received her MD from Prague University in 1920, and married her fellow student Carl Cori that same year. The couple moved to Vienna, where she investigated thyroid deficiency in children. They went to the USA to work at the State Institute for the Study of Malignant Disease in Buffalo, New York (1922–31), then moved to Washington University, St Louis (1957), where they shared (with Bernardo Houssay) the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their collaborations on glucose-glycogen metabolism. She went on to make major contributions to studies of inherited glycogen-storage diseases, and died in 1957 from myelosclerosis. |
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