• Biochemist / Biophysicist

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Biochemists and biophysicists who conduct applied research attempt to develop products and processes that improve people’s lives. For example, in medicine, biochemists and biophysicists develop tests used to detect infections, genetic disorders, and other diseases. They also develop new drugs and medications, such as those used to treat cancer or Alzheimers disease.

Biochemists/ Biophysicists research and study the chemical and physical properties of living organisms at a molecular level. Biochemists/Biophysicists try to understand how certain chemical and physical reactions take place in the DNA, proteins and other parts of living cells; how they react to medicines; how they are affected by foods, medicines/drugs, allergens, and other substances.

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Gerty Cori

Gerty Theresa Cori was an Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her significant role in the "discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen".