October 5, 2009
Jack Szostak, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for pioneering work in the discovery of telomerase, an enzyme that protects chromosomes from degrading.
The work not only revealed a key cellular function, it also illuminated processes involved in disease and aging.
Read the full Harvard Gazette article.
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