Albany Medical Center Prize Awarded to Two Female Biomedical Researchers

For the first time since its inception, the Albany Medical Center Prize, ( the largest prize for medicine in the United States , and second world-wide only to the Nobel), was awarded to two women.



Dr. Joan Steitz of Yale University does research that has improved the lives of people suffering from a variety of auto-immune diseases, while Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn of UCSF discovered the enzyme telomerase, which repair telomeres on chromosomes (and many believe may be linked to aging).



The women will share the $500,000 prize.