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Carol Greider

b. 1961

Carol Greider is a molecular biologist born in 1961, best known for her discovery of telomerase, the enzyme that maintains telomeres, which earned her the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has been a leading figure in understanding cellular aging and cancer. Her work combines rigorous experimental design with a deep curiosity about fundamental biological processes.

Biology

Telomerase and the End Replication Problem (Nobel Lecture, 2009)
Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts (Cell, 1985, with Elizabeth Blackburn)
Telomeres and telomerase: the path from maize, Tetrahymena and yeast to human cancer and aging (Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2006)
Telomerase and cancer: a complex relationship (Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 2005)
The telomere and telomerase: how do they interact? (Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2009)

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