Carol Greider

Carol Greider, an American molecular biologist, became the youngest woman to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2009. At the mere age of 23, while still a grad student at the University of California, Berkeley, she, alongside her professor Elizabeth Blackburn, discovered the enzyme telomerase that maintains the end of chromosomes, which is associated with cellular aging and cell death. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she continues her research on telomeres and cellular aging. 

Learn more: https://www.ibsafoundation.org/en/blog/carol-the-youngest-woman-to-win-the-noble-prize-in-medicine

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