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wp-image-92" src="https://sites.uw.edu/biochemistry/files/2020/02/nobelsurprise-300x223.jpg" alt="Edwin Krebs and Edmond Fischer" width="300" height="223" srcset="https://sites.uw.edu/biochemistry/files/2020/02/nobelsurprise-300x224.jpg 300w, https://sites.uw.edu/biochemistry/files/2020/02/nobelsurprise-108x81.jpg 108w, https://sites.uw.edu/biochemistry/files/2020/02/nobelsurprise.jpg 302w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p> <p class="wp-caption-text">Edwin Krebs and Edmond Fischer, Nobel Laureates for discovering the regulatory role of protein phosphorylation.</span></p> </div> <p>Fundamental studies of the regulation of glycogen metabolism by Professors <strong>Edwin Krebs</strong> and <strong>Edmond Fischer</strong> in the 1950s revealed the role of phosphorylation in the control of many cellular events. This scientific partnership continued for over 40 years, and served the department and university as a model of collegiality. The pioneering discoveries of Krebs and Fischer were recognized by the <a title="Nobel Prize www site" href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1992/summary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">1992 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p><iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/8XKRAduG2Hk" width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> <p>From <a href="https://www.ibiology.org/">iBiology</a>, this delightful <a href="https://www.ibiology.org/cell-biology/reversible-protein-phosphorylation-regulatory-mechanism/">video</a> featuring Edmond Fischer details his work fun and partnership with Edwin Krebs and the story of their discovery of reversible protein phosphorylation.</p> <p> </p> <div id="attachment_91" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 208px"><a href="https://sites.uw.edu/biochemistry/files/2020/02/rodbell1.gif"><img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-91" src="https://sites.uw.edu/biochemistry/files/2020/02/rodbell1-198x300.gif" alt="Martin Rodbell" width="198" height="300" /></a></p> <p class="wp-caption-text">Martin Rodbell</span></p> </div> <p><strong><a href="http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/march98/rodbell.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Martin Rodbell</a></strong> earned his PhD in 1954 from our department and went on to a distinguished career at the NIH, where he played a central role in the early days of signal transduction research. He has received many international awards, including <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1994/summary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the 1994 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine</a>. 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