Untold: Marshall Nirenberg and Hexose Transport
Years before his breakthrough on the genetic code and sharing the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, followed by important contributions in neurobiology, as a PhD student Marshall Nirenberg was the first to define cellular hexose transport, a discovery that has not been adequately recognized.
Authors
- Thoru Pederson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3703-7806)
Institutions
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The FASEB Journal
- Published
- 2026-02-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202504102rr
- Primary Topic
- Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- University of Pennsylvania
- Joslin Diabetes Center
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania