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Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 2009
Jack W. Szostak received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. The award recognizes how this contribution changed the direction of its field. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.