Carol W. Greider
Carol Greider Widney ( born April 15, 1961 in San Diego, California, USA) is an American molecular biologist, who is best known for her work on the enzyme telomerase. She was awarded jointly to Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2009.
Academic Career
Carol Greider grew up in Davis ( California), where her father was the University of California working as a physics professor on campus Davis. She studied biology in Santa Barbara, California, where she completed the study in 1983 with the title of Bachelor of Arts. The academic year 1981/82 she spent at the partner university of Göttingen.
Your submitted 1987 doctoral thesis on the function of telomeres produced Carol Greider in the laboratory of Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of California at Berkeley, where both shared their groundbreaking discoveries on the enzyme telomerase made , which plays a crucial role in cell division and cell aging. In the following years she has been dealing with the consequences of a malfunction of telomeres and telomerase for genetic, genomic stability of the cell and the organism.
Since 1993 she is the owner of the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Awards and Honors
- Gairdner Foundation International Award ( 1998)
- Passano Award ( 1999) ( with Elizabeth Blackburn)
- Richard Lounsbery Award ( 2003), National Academy of Sciences
- Membership in the National Academy of Sciences (2003)
- Dickson Prize in Medicine (2006)
- Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2006) (along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak )
- Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2006) (along with Elizabeth Blackburn)
- Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in 2009 along with Elizabeth Blackburn
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak