Carol Greider Collection

Carol Greider was born in San Diego, California on April 15th, 1961. She received her B.A. in Biology in 1983 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 1987 from the University of California, Berkeley. She carried out her graduate research in the laboratory of Elizabeth Blackburn, working on telomeres, the sequences at the ends of chromosomes, in particular on the enzyme "telomere terminal transferase," known as telomerase.

Greider and Blackburn shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jack W. Szostak.

Greider continued her research on telomerase when she came to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1988 as the second CSHL Fellow. On completion of her fellowship, she joined the CSHL faculty 1990-1992, promoted to Assistant Investigator (1990-1992), followed by Associate Investigator (1992-1994) and an Investigator (1994-1997).

In 1997, she joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University where she is the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. In February 2014 Greider was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, in addition to Daniel Nathans Professor, and department director for Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Greider visited UC Santa Cruz while on sabbatical leave September 2019 - May 2020.

On May 21, 2020 UC Santa Cruz announced Greider was joining their faculty as a Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental (MCD) Biology. Greider began her position at UC Santa Cruz in October 2020.