Carolyn Widney Greider is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She discovered the enzyme telomerase in 1984 while a graduate student of Elizabeth Blackburn at the University of California, Berkeley, and was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in 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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A direct working partnership, not merely a shared prize: Blackburn's own lead names Greider as her co-discoverer of telomerase in 1984, ahead of and distinct from their shared 2009 Nobel Prize.
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Shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; Greider's own lead credits her direct 1984 co-discovery of telomerase to Blackburn alone (see the Blackburn-Greider edge above) and names Szostak only alongside her as a fellow laureate, so this edge is recorded as shared-prize-only, not a working collaboration between Greider and Szostak specifically.
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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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April 15, 1961
Associated With: Jack W. Szostak, Lead section, Carol W. Greider, second paragraph
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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In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak
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