Carol Greider

Carol Greider
Born (1961-04-15) April 15, 1961 (age 63)
San Diego, California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Berkeley
Known fordiscovery of telomerase
AwardsLasker Award (2006)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2007)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular biology
InstitutionsCold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
Doctoral advisorElizabeth Blackburn

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

  1. ↑ "Carol Greider". Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. Johns Hopkins Medicine. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Blackburn, Greider, and Szostak share Nobel". Dolan DNA Learning Center. Archived from the original on 2009-10-22. Retrieved 2009-10-05.