Hopkins molecular biologist Carol Greider elected to American Philosophical Society

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Carol Greider, a Nobel laureate and molecular biologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society, which recognizes academics for extraordinary intellectual accomplishments in their fields of expertise. She joins five other researchers elected this year from the biological sciences, in addition to 27 from other academic fields as varied as mathematics and the arts.

Greider is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins and the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics in the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. She shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery in 1984 of telomerase, an enzyme that maintains protective "caps" on the ends of chromosomes. Over the years, she and her colleagues have uncovered how telomerase functions and is controlled.