2026 Carol W. Greider: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	79	1019	905	536	466	136	58896

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

7342
Citations
Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in tetrahymena extracts

Carol W. Greider;Elizabeth H. Blackburn

4546
Citations
The RNA component of human telomerase

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

3423
Citations
Telomere length predicts replicative capacity of human fibroblasts.

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

2938
Citations
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

2858
Citations
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

2671
Citations
A telomeric sequence in the RNA of Tetrahymena telomerase required for telomere repeat synthesis.

Carol W. Greider;Elizabeth H. Blackburn

2193
Citations
Longevity, stress response, and cancer in aging telomerase-deficient mice.

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

1612
Citations
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

1557
Citations
Telomerase Mutations in Families with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

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

1522
Citations
The telomere terminal transferase of tetrahymena is a ribonucleoprotein enzyme with two kinds of primer specificity

Carol W. Greider;Elizabeth H. Blackburn

1514
Citations
Telomere end-replication problem and cell aging.

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

1423
Citations
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

1387
Citations
TELOMERE LENGTH REGULATION

Carol W. Greider

1345
Citations
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

1188
Citations
Telomeres and telomerase: the path from maize, Tetrahymena and yeast to human cancer and aging.

Elizabeth H Blackburn;Carol W Greider;Jack W Szostak

1145
Citations
Developmental and tissue-specific regulation of mouse telomerase and telomere length.

Karen R. Prowse;Carol W. Greider

905
Citations
Secondary structure of vertebrate telomerase RNA.

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

828
Citations
Human telomerase RNA and telomerase activity in immortal cell lines and tumor tissues

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

684
Citations
Telomerase activity, cell proliferation, and cancer

Carol W. Greider

581
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth H. Blackburn University of California, San Francisco

Maria A. Blasco Spanish National Cancer Research Centre

Michael T. Hemann MIT

Ronald A. DePinho The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Calvin B. Harley Geron (United States)

Silvia Bacchetti McMaster University

Jack W. Szostak University of Chicago

Christopher M. Counter Duke University

J. Brooks Jackson University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Cynthia Wolberger Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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