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Apr 15, 1961 San Diego, California, United States 63 years old
molecular biologist
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About Carol W. Greider
- Carolyn Widney "Carol" Greider (born April 15, 1961) is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate.
- She is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Daniel Nathans Professor, and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University.
- She discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984, while 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, along with Blackburn and Jack W.
- Szostak, for their discovery that telomeres are protected from progressive shortening by the enzyme telomerase.
