Postal Service Dedicates Gerty Cori Postage Stamp

Postage Stamp is One of Four in American Scientist Series

EVENT:
The Postal Service will dedicate the Gerty Cori commemorative postage stamp, one of four stamps in the American Scientists series.

WHO:
Robert Cavinder
Postmaster
City of St. Louis

Larry J. Shapiro, M.D.
Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs and
Dean of Washington University School of Medicine

Mark S. Wrighton, Ph.D.
Chancellor
Washington University

Carl Frieden, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Washington University

WHEN:
Monday, March 17 – 4 p.m.

WHERE:
Moore Auditorium
Washington University School of Medicine campus
660 S. Euclid
St. Louis, MO

Background:
Nobel Laureate Gerty Cori, M.D. is one of four stamps in the American Scientists commemorative stamp series issued by the U.S. Postal Service®. Cori, in collaboration with her husband Carl, made important discoveries that later became the basis for our knowledge of how cells use food and convert it into energy. Among her discoveries was a new derivative of glucose, a finding that elucidated the steps of carbohydrate metabolism. Their work also contributed to the understanding and treatment of diabetes and other metabolic diseases.

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