Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn

With AIC Gold Medal, 2012
Born
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn

(1948-11-26) 26 November 1948 (age 75)
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
CitizenshipAustralian and American
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular biology
Institutions
ThesisSequence studies on bacteriophage ØX174 DNA by transcription (1974)
Doctoral advisorFrederick Sanger[1]
Doctoral studentsCarol W. Greider
Websitebiochemistry2.ucsf.edu/labs/blackburn

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC FRS FAA FRSN[2] (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.[3] 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.[4]

  1. ^ "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 5 October 2009.
  2. ^ "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 16 March 2015.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn named Salk Institute President was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Brady, Catherine (2007). Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-02622-2.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · View on Wikipedia

Developed by Nelliwinne