Carol Greider

Carol Greider

Carol Greider is working with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as a researcher and has won the Nobel Prize for Physiology of Medicine for the year 2009. She is sharing this prize with two other scientists. She was born in San Diego, California on April 15, 1961. Carol Greider is working at Johns Hopkins University as a molecular biologist in the researcher category. Enzyme telomerase was discovered by Carol Greider while she was working with Elizabeth Blackburn in 1984. Research work on the structure of telomeres has placed her in the pioneer position in this category. The other two scientists that have also won the Nobel Prize for Physiology of Medicine are Jack W. Szostak and Elizabeth Blackburn.

She got the Nobel Prize for her contribution towards enzyme telomerase and protection of chromosomes by telomeres. Carol Greider is the director of molecular biology and genetics and Daniel Nathans Professor at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences. Carol spent her childhood in Davis, California. Carol Greider got her graduation degree of B.A in biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1983.

In 1987, she completed her Ph. D studies at the University of California, Berkeley in the field of molecular biology, under Elizabeth Blackburn. Telomerase is a key player in cancer which was co-discovered by Carol Greider with Elizabeth Blackburn at Berkeley. As she completed her postdoctoral work, she was accepted by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island, NY as a faculty position. And in 1997 Carol got faculty position at the Johns Hopkins Institute.