Otto Heinrich Warburg: German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate

Otto Heinrich Warburg (October 8, 1883 - August 1, 1970) was a German chemist.

After earning his doctorate degrees in medicine and chemistry, he started to investigate how oxygen is consumed by cells in a living organism. His studies led him to identify the role of the cytochromes.

Otto Heinrich Warburg
Otto Heinrich Warburg: German physiologist, medical doctor and Nobel laureate
Otto Heinrich Warburg
Born(1883-10-08)8 October 1883
Died1 August 1970(1970-08-01) (aged 86)
Alma materUniversity of Berlin
University of Heidelberg
Known forOncometabolism
Warburg hypothesis
Warburg effect (oncology)
Warburg effect (plant physiology)
Warburg–Christian method
AwardsIron Cross 1st class (1918)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1931)
Pour le Mérite (Civil Class) (1952)
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1962)
Foreign Member of the Royal Society
Scientific career
FieldsCell biology
InstitutionsKaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology
Doctoral advisorEmil Fischer
Ludolf von Krehl

He won the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the respiratory enzyme.

Cancer

In the 1920s, Warburg and his colleagues observed that tumors take up higher amounts of glucose than their surrounding tissues. Although consuming glucose is helpful for mammals because it is a nutrient, tumor cells consume too much glucose despite having working mitochondria and enough presence of oxygen. This observation is called the Warburg effect.

Following this observation, Warburg and his colleagues concluded: that to kill a tumor cell, it must be deprived of glucose.

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