Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award

Greider, C.W. and Blackburn, E.H. (1985) Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts. Cell 43: 405–413.

Greider, C.W. and Blackburn, E.H. (1987) The telomere terminal transferase of Tetrahymena is a ribonucleoprotein enzyme with two kinds of primer specificity. Cell 51: 887–898.

Greider, C.W. and Blackburn, E.H (1987) A telomeric sequence in the RNA of Tetrahymena telomerase required for telomere repeat synthesis. Nature 337: 331-337.

Allsopp, R.C., Vaziri, H., Patterson, C., Goldstein, S., Younglai, E.V., Futcher, C.W., Greider, C.W., and Harley, C.B. (1992) Telomere length predicts the replicative capacity of human fibroblasts. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89: 10114–10118.

Prowse, K.R., Avilion, A.A., and Greider, C.W. (1993) Identification of a nonprocessive telomerase activity from mouse cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90: 1493–1497.

Rudolph, K.L., Chang, S., Lee, H.W., Blasco, M., Gottlieb, G., Greider, C.W., and DePinho, R.A. (1999) Longevity, stress response, and cancer in aging telomerase deficient mice. Cell 96: 701–716