Amer Zeidan, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Hematologic Malignancies at Yale University, shared a post on X by The Nobel Prize, adding:
“And then came the first successful targeting in human disease (MDS) with imetelstat. Fascinating that telomeres were discovered by Blackburn as a postdoc at Yale University at Gall’s lab in the mid-1970s, while I was involved in the pivotal trial at Yale University that led to imetelstat approval 50 years later.”
Quoting The Nobel Prize’s post:
“On Christmas Day 1984, Nobel Prize laureates Elizabeth Blackburn (left) and Carol Greider (right) discovered the first evidence for the enzyme telomerase, which affects the way our cells age. They were awarded the medicine prize, alongside Jack Szostak, in 2009.”
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