Elizabeth H Blackburn

Elizabeth H. Blackburn

Elizabeth H Blackburn
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Professor & Chair, Department of Microbiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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  • 1998 Winner

    Canada Gairdner International Award

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For the discovery of the structure of telomeres and the enzyme that synthesizes them.

Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, she received her BSc and MSc degrees in Biochemistry at the University of Melbourne and her PhD in Molecular Biology in 1975 at the Univ. of Cambridge in the UK. Dr. Blackburn is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and is a recipient of its Award in Molecular Biology. She received the Australia Prize in 1998 and is a fellow of the Royal Society.