American Jack W . Szostak wins Nobel Prize for medicineA handout photo dated 14 January 2009 from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of American Jack W . Szostak . Szostak , an HHMI investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School , along with fellow Americans Elizabeth H . Blackburn , and Carol W . Greider won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine on 05 October 2009 for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells , an insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer . It was the first time two women have been among the winners of the medicine prize . EPA / MARK WILSON / HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE / HO EDITORIAL USE ONLY < 실시간 뉴스 가 당신 의 손안 으로 . . 연합뉴스 폰 > < 포토 매거진 >< 저작권자 ( c ) 연합뉴스 . 무단 전재 - 재배 포금 지 . >