03/09/2026
This Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating Pioneers in Clinical Care & Innovation, trailblazing women whose breakthroughs helped redefine medicine, research, and patient care. 🔬🩺
Did you know? 💡
In 1947, Dr. Gerty Cori became the first American woman—and only the third woman worldwide, to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how the body converts glycogen and glucose, now known as the Cori Cycle. 🔬
Her achievement is even more remarkable considering that for much of her career she was limited to non-tenure research roles with minimal pay due to gender discrimination and nepotism rules. Despite these barriers, Cori continued pursuing her lifelong passion for medical research.
A brilliant and meticulous experimentalist, her discoveries helped lay the foundation for modern understanding of diabetes, metabolism, and clinical biochemical research.
