November 11, 1991 HHMI's Krebs And NHLBI's Stadtman
The Houston-based Robert A. Welch Foundation has named Edwin G. Krebs and Earl Reece Stadtman corecipients of the 1991 Robert A. Welch Award. Krebs is a senior investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a professor in the department of pharmacology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Stadtman is the chief of the laboratory of biochemistry at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. The award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of chemistry (The Scientist, Aug. 20 1999, page 26), was presented to Krebs and Stadtman last month. The two split a $250,000 unrestricted cash reward, and each received a gold medallion and a certificate.
Krebs and Statdman are noted for their research into the basic principles governing cellular regulation, particularly covalent chemical modification, a mechanism occurring frequently in ...
