Carol W. Greider
Carol Widney Greider (born April 15, 1961 in San Diego , California , USA ) is an American molecular biologist who became known for her work on the enzyme telomerase . Together with Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Jack W. Szostak, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2009.
Scientific career
Carol Greider grew up in Davis, California , where her father was a physics professor on the Davis campus of the University of California . She studied biology in Santa Barbara , California , where she graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts . She spent the academic year 1981/82 at the partner university in Göttingen .
Carol Greider wrote her 1987 doctoral thesis on the function of telomeres in Elizabeth Blackburn's laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley , where the two of them made their groundbreaking discoveries on the enzyme telomerase, which plays a crucial role in cell division and cell aging. In the following years she dealt in particular with the consequences of a malfunction of telomeres and telomerase for the genetic material, the genomic stability of the cell and the organism.
Since 1993 she has been the Daniel Nathans Professorship and Director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore .
Awards and honors
- Gairdner Foundation International Award (1998)
- Passano Award (1999) (with Elizabeth Blackburn)
- Richard Lounsbery Award (2003), National Academy of Sciences
- Membership in the National Academy of Sciences (2003)
- Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2006) (together with Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak )
- Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2006) (with Elizabeth Blackburn)
- Dickson Prize in Medicine (2007)
- Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2007) (together with Elizabeth Blackburn and Joseph G. Gall )
- Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for 2009 together with Elizabeth Blackburn
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2009, with Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak
- Membership in the American Philosophical Society (2016)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from the Nobel Foundation on the 2009 award ceremony to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak (English)
- ^ Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - press information
- ↑ nasonline.org
literature
- own publications
- Carol W. Greider and Elizabeth H. Blackburn: Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in tetrahymena extracts. In: Cell . Vol. 43, No. 2, 1985, pp. 405-413, PMID 3907856 doi: 10.1016 / 0092-8674 (85) 90170-9
- Carol W. Greider and Elizabeth H. Blackburn: A telomeric sequence in the RNA of Tetrahymena telomerase required for telomere repeat synthesis. In: Nature . Volume 337, No. 6205, 1989, pp. 331-337, PMID 2463488 doi: 10.1038 / 337331a0
- Secondary literature
- Regina Nuzzo: Biography of Carol W. Greider. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA Volume 102, No. 23, 2005, pp. 8077–8079, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.0503019102 (short biography in full English)
Web links
- Address for the awarding of the Lasker Prize (with photo)
- "Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol Greider receive the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2009, endowed with 100,000 euros"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greider, Carol W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Greider, Carol; Greider, Carol Widney (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American molecular biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Diego , California , USA |