Alum of the Month, December 2006
Carol Greider '87
Alum awarded the 2006 Albert Lasker Award
Carol Greider will share the 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for her research on chromosome ends, called telomeres. Greider is credited with helping co-discover telomerase, an enzyme that maintains the length and integrity of telomeres. She will share a $100,000 cash prize and award, which is widely considered by many the nation’s most prestigious honor for basic and clinical medical research and often dubbed the “American Nobel”.
Dr. Greider is currently a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University. She continues her work on telomeres, recently documenting a mouse model for dyskeratosis congenital, a rare, inherited disorder related to stem cell failure.
Greider received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1987 in Molecular and Cell Biology. She previously attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and earned a B.A. in biology in 1983.
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