The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
Awarded on: 2009-10-05
"for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"
Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine – Baltimore, MD, USA
Carol W. Greider
Born: 1961-04-15 in San Diego, CA, USA
Gender: female
Field: American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate
Biography
Carolyn Widney Greider 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.