Carol Greider

1961 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara

occupation: biologist, molecular biologist, geneticist, biochemist

award received: Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Canada Gairdner International Award, Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Dickson Prize in Medicine, Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, Rosenstiel Award, Richard Lounsbery Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Maryland Women's Hall of Fame

official website: greiderlab.org

Carolyn Widney Greider (born April 15, 1961) is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate. She joined the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Distinguished Professor in the department of molecular, cell, and developmental biology in October 2020. Greider 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)