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Carol Greider
Carolyn Widney Greider 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.
BornCarolyn Widney Greider, April 15, 1961, San Diego, California, U.S.
FieldsMolecular biology
InstitutionsCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, University of California, Santa Cruz
EducationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara (B.A. 1983), University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1987)
ThesisIdentification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts (1985)
Other academic advisorsBeatrice M. Sweeney, David J. Asai, Leslie Wilson
Known forDiscovery of telomerase
Notable awardsRichard Lounsbery Award (2003), Lasker Award (2006), Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2007), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2009)
Children2

About Carol Greider

Biologist Carol Greider was born in California, United States on April 15, 1961. She's 62 years old today.

In 1984, he discovered the enzyme telomerase, which he named after himself. She won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for discovering that the enzyme telomerase prevents progressive telomere shortening.

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Carol Greider before becoming famous

Carol Greider was born in the Zodiac sign Aries (The Ram), and 1961 is also the year of Ox (牛) in the Chinese Zodiac.

She was born and raised in Davis, California.

Achievement of Carol Greider

She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

Carol Greider's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Charles and Gwendolyn are her two children.

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She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, just as Biologist James Watson before her.

Carol Greider Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Carol Greider updated on March 15 2023.