Jack Szostak wins the Nobel prize in medicine

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 Jack Szostak from the Department of Genetics and the Department of Molecular Biology at MGH was a co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine.  The award was given for “The discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase”  Jack shared the award with Elizabeth Blackburn of UCSF and Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins.

The announcement was made today on the Nobel prize website.

 

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