Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award

Szostak, J.W. and Blackburn, E.H. (1982) Cloning yeast telomeres on linear plasmid vectors. Cell 29: 245–255.

Murray, A.W. and Szostak, J.W. (1983) Construction of artificial chromosomes in yeast. Nature 305: 189–193.

Blackburn, E.H. and Szostak, J.W. (1984) The molecular structure of centromeres and telomeres. Ann. Rev. Biochem. 53: 163–194.

Shampay, J., Szostak, J.W., and Blackburn, E.H. (1984) DNA sequences of telomeres maintained in yeast. Nature 310: 154–157.

Dunn, B.L., Szauter, P., Pardue, M-L., Szostak, J.W. (1984) Transfer of telomere-adjacent sequences to linear plasmids by recombination. Cell 39: 191–201.

Lundblad V. and Szostak, J.W. (1989) A mutant with a defect in telomere maintenance leads to senescence in yeast. Cell 57: 633–643.