Carol W. Greider
Molecular Biologist, Academic
1961 –
Who is Carol W. Greider?
Carolyn Widney "Carol" Greider is an American molecular biologist. She is Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University. She 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, along with Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak, for their discovery that telomeres are protected from progressive shortening by the enzyme telomerase.
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- Born
- Apr 15, 1961
Davis - Also known as
- Carol Greider
- Spouses
- Ethnicity
- White people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara
Biology
( - 1983) - Doctorate, University of California, Berkeley
Molecular biology
( - 1987) - Davis Senior High School
- College of Creative Studies
- Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Employment
- Johns Hopkins University
(1997 - )
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lived in
- Davis
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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