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PROF. CARL F. CORI, professor of biochemistry in the Washington University School of Medicine, has been awarded the 1948 Willard Gibbs Medal of the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society. This medal, one of America‘s highest scientific honours, goes to Dr. Cori for his achievements in research on the processes by which the body converts sugar into energy. He has been a leading worker in the difficult field of biological carbohydrate transformations for many years. His contributions have been of widespread importance involving adrenal, cortical, pituitary, and pancreatic roles in carbohydrate utilization as well as carbohydrate metabolism in tumours. A recent outstanding contribution is at least a partial solution of the problem of how insulin functions. He and his wife, Dr. Gerty T. Cori, who is also a professor of biochemistry in Washington University, received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for 1947 (see Nature, 160, 599 ; 1947) for determining the process by which the body stores sugar in the liver as glycogen, or animal starch, and then reconverts the glycogen to sugar as it is needed.
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Willard Gibbs Medal : Prof. Carl F. Cori. Nature 161, 388 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161388b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161388b0