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EMF News: Carol Greider shares 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine ellisonfoundation.org | Carol Greider, Ph.D. hopkinsmedicine.org |
Carolyn Widney "Carol" Greider[1][2] (born April 15, 1961) is a molecular biologist at the Johns Hopkins University. She was a co-discoverer of the enzyme telomerase in 1984 while working under 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 Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak of Boston, Massachusetts, for their discovery of how telomeres are protected from progressive shortening by the enzyme telomerase.[3]
[edit] Life and careerGreider is the Daniel Nathans Professor and the Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences. Greider was born in San Diego, California.[4] Her father, Kenneth Greider, was a physics professor.[5] Her family moved from San Diego to Davis, California, where she spent many of her early years. She graduated from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a B.A. in biology in 1983. During this time she also studied at the University of Göttingen and made significant discoveries there.[6] She completed her Ph.D. in molecular biology in 1987 at the University of California, Berkeley, under Elizabeth Blackburn. While at U.C. Berkeley, Greider co-discovered telomerase, a key enzyme in cancer and anemia research, along with Blackburn. Greider then completed her postdoctoral work, and also held a faculty position, at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, New York. She next moved on to a faculty position at the Johns Hopkins University in 1997, where she remains employed. She has two children: Charles, 13, and Gwendolyn, 10. [edit] Awards and honors
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