Carol Greider, Ph.D., Q&A Part 4

Carol Greider, a professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Daniel Nathans Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the schools Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded a share of this years Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized Greider for her 1984 discovery of telomerase, an enzyme that maintains the length and integrity of chromosome ends and is critical for the health and survival of all living cells and organisms. The discovery important and of itself for increasing our understanding of how cells work also has turned out to have far-reaching implications for the investigation of cancer and certain aging-related diseases. She shares the Nobel with Eizabeth Blackburn, a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, and Jack Szostack, Ph.D., of Harvard Medical School. Here are excerpts from Greiders comments at an Oct. 5 news conference following the announcement.

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