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Carol Greider
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American molecular biologist
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Carol W. Greider was born in 1961. She is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Greider has an Erdős number of 6. The GreiderLab at UC Santa Cruz MCDB was developed for her work. She has received one Nobel Prize.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2009
“for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Diego
- Occupation
- biochemist
- Educated at
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Elizabeth Blackburn
- Student of
- Elizabeth Blackburn
- Field of work
- genetics
- Official website
- greiderlab.org
- Image
- GREIDER Carol 2014 - Less vignetting.jpg
- Residence
- Davis
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- Commons category
- Carol Greider
- date of birth
- 1961-04-15
- Erdős number
- 6
- name in native language
- Carol Greider
- interested in
- molecular biology
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Encyclopedic overview
Carolyn Widney Greider (born April 15, 1961) is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate. She is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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.
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