Elizabeth Blackburn

Prize: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2009
for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase
Together with: Carol Greider, Jack Szostak

occupation: molecular biologist
university teacher
biochemist
biologist
field of work: cytogenetics
biology
physiology
educated at: University of Melbourne
end time: 1972
University of Cambridge
academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
end time: 1975
University High School
Janet Clarke Hall
Darwin College
employer: University of California, San Francisco
start time: 1990
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
University of California, Berkeley
start time: 1978
end time: 1990
University of Oxford
position held: President of the American Association for Cancer Research
start time: 2010
end time: 2011
member of: Royal Society of London
European Molecular Biology Organization
National Academy of Sciences
start time: 1993
American Association for the Advancement of Science
National Academy of Medicine
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Australian Academy of Science
doctoral student: Carol Greider

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