Jack W. Szostak

Awards

1. 2006

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For the prediction and discovery of telomerase, a remarkable RNA-containing enzyme that synthesizes the ends of chromosomes, protecting them and maintaining the integrity of the genome.

2. 2009

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase