Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak win Nobel medicine prize

Carol W. Greider, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was one of three scientists to share the Nobel Prize in Physiology of Medicine.

Greider and Jack W. Szostak of Masschusetts General Hospital, and Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, won “for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase,” the prize committee wrote in its citation.

Telomeres protect chromosomes when they’re copying.

Greider, 48, is a professor and director of molecular biology and genetics at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences.

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