Biography of carol greider

American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate

Carolyn Widney Greider (born April 15, 1961) is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate.

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She is a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology^[1] at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Greider discovered the enzymetelomerase 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.^[2]

Early life and education

Greider was born in San Diego, California.^[3] Her father, Kenneth Greider, was a physics professor.^[4] Her family moved from San Diego to Davis, California, where she spent many of Carol Greider – Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre GYJIC