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 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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.
1998 - Canada Gairdner International Award
Carol W. Greider mainly investigates Telomerase, Telomere, Molecular biology, Telomerase reverse transcriptase and Telomerase RNA component. His Telomerase research incorporates themes from RNA, Q-FISH and Cell growth. Carol W. Greider focuses mostly in the field of Telomere, narrowing it down to topics relating to Cell biology and, in certain cases, Apoptosis and Phenotype.
He interconnects Cell division, Tetrahymena and Somatic cell in the investigation of issues within Molecular biology. His research on Telomerase reverse transcriptase also deals with topics like
His scientific interests lie mostly in Telomere, Telomerase, Molecular biology, Telomerase RNA component and Cell biology. Carol W. Greider has researched Telomere in several fields, including Cancer research and DNA replication. Carol W. Greider is interested in Telomerase reverse transcriptase, which is a field of Telomerase.
In his work, Immunology is strongly intertwined with Dyskeratosis congenita, which is a subfield of Telomerase reverse transcriptase. His studies in Molecular biology integrate themes in fields like Cell culture, Cell division and Q-FISH. His research integrates issues of Non-coding RNA, RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, Polymerase and DNA polymerase in his study of Telomerase RNA component.
Carol W. Greider mostly deals with Telomere, Cell biology, Telomerase, Telomere Length Maintenance and Budding yeast. In his works, Carol W. Greider undertakes multidisciplinary study on Telomere and MRX complex. As a member of one scientific family, Carol W. Greider mostly works in the field of Cell biology, focusing on Telomere elongation and, on occasion, DNA replication, Protein phosphatase 1, Telomere Lengthening and Mutant.
His research on Telomerase concerns the broader Gene. His Telomere Length Maintenance research integrates issues from Mutation, Amino acid, DNA and Function. His Processivity research focuses on TINF2 and how it connects with Regulator.
Telomere, Telomerase, Gender diversity, International research and Trace are his primary areas of study. He incorporates Telomere and MRX complex in his studies. His Telomerase research is included under the broader classification of Genetics.
His Gender diversity research overlaps with other disciplines such as Agriculture, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 and Workforce.
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Telomeres shorten during ageing of human fibroblasts.
C B Harley;A B Futcher;C W Greider.
Nature (1990)
Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in tetrahymena extracts
Carol W. Greider;Elizabeth H. Blackburn.
Cell (1985)
Telomere length predicts replicative capacity of human fibroblasts.
R C Allsopp;H Vaziri;C Patterson;S Goldstein.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1992)
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.
The EMBO Journal (1992)
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.
Cell (1997)
A telomeric sequence in the RNA of Tetrahymena telomerase required for telomere repeat synthesis.
Carol W. Greider;Elizabeth H. Blackburn.
Nature (1989)
Longevity, stress response, and cancer in aging telomerase-deficient mice.
Karl Lenhard Rudolph;Sandy Chang;Han Woong Lee;Maria Blasco.
Cell (1999)
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.
Nature (1998)
The telomere terminal transferase of tetrahymena is a ribonucleoprotein enzyme with two kinds of primer specificity
Carol W. Greider;Elizabeth H. Blackburn.
Cell (1987)
Telomerase Mutations in Families with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Mary Y. Armanios;Julian J.-L. Chen;Joy D. Cogan;Jonathan K. Alder.
The New England Journal of Medicine (2007)
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