Author

Elizabeth Blackburn

1948 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship:  Australia, United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed:  English
educated at:  University of Melbourne, Darwin College, University of Cambridge, University High School, Janet Clarke Hall
occupation:  biologist, molecular biologist, biochemist, international forum participant, university teacher
award received:  Fellow of the Royal Society, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science, Benjamin Franklin Medal, Harvey Prize, Canada Gairdner International Award, Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Victorian Honour Roll of Women, Albany Medical Center Prize, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize, Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine, Dickson Prize in Medicine, Gruber Prize in Genetics, Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, Rosenstiel Award, California Hall of Fame, E. B. Wilson Medal, Keio Medical Science Prize, Meyenburg Prize, Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research, ASCB Public Service Award, Grand Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer, NAS Award in Molecular Biology, Keith R. Porter Lecture, WICB Senior Award, Weizmann Women & Science Award, Time 100, Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Cancer Research, Royal medal, Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctor of Harvard University, honorary doctor of Brandeis University, Companion of the Order of Australia, Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, Distinguished Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal, Australia Prize, Great Immigrants
student of:  Frederick Sanger
official website:  blackburnlab.ucsf.edu

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming the first Australian woman Nobel laureate. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially dismissed from the Bush administration's President's Council on Bioethics. 170 scientists signed an open letter to the president in her support, maintaining that she was fired because of political opposition to her advice. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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