The Passano Foundation
1999 Passano Laureates Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider have been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
The charter of the Passano Foundation
limits its support to further scientific research
and to make an annual award to recognize
outstanding research done in the United States.
