Carol W. Greider award received Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Awards and honors
Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences (1990–1994)
Gairdner Foundation International Award (1998)
Rosenstiel Award in Basic Medical Research (1998) (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn)
Member of the American Society for Cell Biology (1999)
Passano Foundation Award (1999) (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn)
Harvey Society Lecture (2000)
 Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award (2000)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2003)
Richard Lounsbery Award (2003), National Academy of Sciences
Member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2004)
Lila Gruber Cancer Research Award (2006)
Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2006) (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak)
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2006) (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn)
Dickson Prize in Medicine (2007)
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University (2007) (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn and Joseph G. Gall)
The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize (2008) (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn and Vicki Lundblad)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2009) (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak)"
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2009) (shared with Elizabeth Blackburn)
Member of the Institute of Medicine (2010)
Member, American Philosophical Society (2016)
Pinnacle Award (2019), Association for Women in Science
Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics, Association for Molecular Pathology (2022)
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