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Carol W. Greider publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carol W. Greider sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 136 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Carol W. Greider D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carol W. Greider sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2009 - Nobel Prize for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase
  • 2009 - Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize Baltimore
  • 2007 - Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Columbia University
  • 2006 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology Molecular, Cellular and General Biology of Eukaryotes
  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2003 - Richard Lounsbery Award, National Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences for her pioneering biochemical and genetic studies of telomerase the enzyme that maintains the ends of chromosomes in eukaryotic cells.
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1998 - Canada Gairdner International Award

Overview

Carol W. Greider is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with notable contributions across 36 publications. They also have substantial work in Medicine, with 17 related publications.

Their research spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Physiology, Aging, Genetics, and Plant Science. The main topics of study addressed in their work include:

  • Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

Among their recent scientific papers are:

  • "Chromosome-specific telomere lengths and the minimal functional telomere revealed by nanopore sequencing" (2021) published in Genome Research
  • "Human telomere length is chromosome end-specific and conserved across individuals" (2024) published in Science
  • "Autoantibodies targeting telomere-associated proteins in systemic sclerosis" (2021) published in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • "TPP1 promoter mutations cooperate with TERT promoter mutations to lengthen telomeres in melanoma" (2022) published in Science
  • "The role of Rif1 in telomere length regulation is separable from its role in origin firing" (2020) published in eLife

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Nancy L. Craig, Gisela Storz, Cynthia Wolberger, Orna Cohen-Fix, and Rachel Green, with collaboration counts from 19 to 20 publications each.

The scientist's publications appear most frequently in the venues bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Science, Genome Research, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, and eLife.

Carol W. Greider has also contributed to academic books, including "Molecular Biology" published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

Awards received by this scientist include the Nobel Prize in 2009 for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. Other honors include the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2009), Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University (2007), Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2006), and several fellowships including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Microbiology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine, among other prestigious distinctions.

Best Publications

  • Telomeres shorten during ageing of human fibroblasts.

    C B Harley;A B Futcher;C W Greider

  • Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in tetrahymena extracts

    Carol W. Greider;Elizabeth H. Blackburn

  • The RNA component of human telomerase

    Junli Feng;Walter D. Funk;Sy Shi Wang;Scott L. Weinrich

  • Telomere length predicts replicative capacity of human fibroblasts.

    R C Allsopp;H Vaziri;C Patterson;S Goldstein

  • Telomere shortening associated with chromosome instability is arrested in immortal cells which express telomerase activity.

    C.M. Counter;A.A. Avilion;C.E. LeFeuvre;N.G. Stewart

  • Telomere Shortening and Tumor Formation by Mouse Cells Lacking Telomerase RNA

    María A. Blasco;María A. Blasco;Han Woong Lee;M. Prakash Hande;Enrique Samper

  • A telomeric sequence in the RNA of Tetrahymena telomerase required for telomere repeat synthesis.

    Carol W. Greider;Elizabeth H. Blackburn

  • Longevity, stress response, and cancer in aging telomerase-deficient mice.

    Karl Lenhard Rudolph;Sandy Chang;Han Woong Lee;Maria Blasco

  • Essential role of mouse telomerase in highly proliferative organs

    Han Woong Lee;Han Woong Lee;Maria A. Blasco;Maria A. Blasco;Geoffrey J. Gottlieb;James W. Horner

  • Telomerase Mutations in Families with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

    Mary Y. Armanios;Julian J.-L. Chen;Joy D. Cogan;Jonathan K. Alder

  • The telomere terminal transferase of tetrahymena is a ribonucleoprotein enzyme with two kinds of primer specificity

    Carol W. Greider;Elizabeth H. Blackburn

  • Telomere end-replication problem and cell aging.

    Michael Z. Levy;Richard C. Allsopp;A.Bruce Futcher;Carol W. Greider

  • The Shortest Telomere, Not Average Telomere Length, Is Critical for Cell Viability and Chromosome Stability

    Michael T. Hemann;Margaret A. Strong;Ling Yang Hao;Carol W. Greider

  • TELOMERE LENGTH REGULATION

    Carol W. Greider

  • p53 Deficiency Rescues the Adverse Effects of Telomere Loss and Cooperates with Telomere Dysfunction to Accelerate Carcinogenesis

    Lynda Chin;Steven E. Artandi;Qiong Shen;Alice Tam

  • Telomeres and telomerase: the path from maize, Tetrahymena and yeast to human cancer and aging.

    Elizabeth H Blackburn;Carol W Greider;Jack W Szostak

  • Developmental and tissue-specific regulation of mouse telomerase and telomere length.

    Karen R. Prowse;Carol W. Greider

  • Secondary structure of vertebrate telomerase RNA.

    Jiunn Liang Chen;Maria A. Blasco;Carol W. Greider

  • Human telomerase RNA and telomerase activity in immortal cell lines and tumor tissues

    Ariel A. Avilion;Mieczyslaw A. Piatyszek;Jyothi Gupta;Jerry W. Shay

  • Telomerase activity, cell proliferation, and cancer

    Carol W. Greider

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn University of California, San Francisco
Maria A. Blasco
Maria A. Blasco Spanish National Cancer Research Centre
Ronald A. DePinho
Ronald A. DePinho The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Calvin B. Harley
Calvin B. Harley Geron (United States)
Silvia Bacchetti
Silvia Bacchetti McMaster University
Jack W. Szostak
Jack W. Szostak University of Chicago
Christopher M. Counter
Christopher M. Counter Duke University
J. Brooks Jackson
J. Brooks Jackson University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Cynthia Wolberger
Cynthia Wolberger Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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