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Carol Greider
| Carol Greider | |
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| Born | April 15, 1961 San Diego, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Molecular biology |
| Institutions | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Johns Hopkins University |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Elizabeth Blackburn |
| Known for | discovery of telomerase |
| Notable awards | Lasker Award (2006) Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2007) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2009) |
Carolyn Widney "Carol" Greider (born April 15, 1961) is an American molecular biologist. She is Professor and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University.[1]
Greider discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984, when she was a graduate student of Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of California, Berkeley. Greider pioneered research on the structure of telomeres, the ends of the chromosomes. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, with Blackburn and Jack Szostak, for their discovery that telomeres are protected from progressive shortening by the enzyme telomerase.[2]
References
- ↑ "Carol Greider". Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. Johns Hopkins Medicine. http://www.mbg.jhmi.edu/Pages/people/profile.aspx?PID=11. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
- ↑ "Blackburn, Greider, and Szostak share Nobel". Dolan DNA Learning Center. http://blogs.dnalc.org/dnaftb/2009/10/05/blackburn-greider-and-szostak-share-nobel-for-telomeres/. Retrieved 2009-10-05.
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