Carol W. Greider

Carol W. Greider

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

“for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”

Carol W. Greider is an American molecular biologist. She shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.

Field
Biology · Molecular Biology
Lifespan
1961–