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

educated at: University of Cambridge

academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
end time: 1975

University of Melbourne

end time: 1972

University High School
Darwin College
Janet Clarke Hall
employer: University of California, Berkeley

start time: 1978
end time: 1990

University of California, San Francisco

start time: 1990

Salk Institute for Biological Studies
University of Oxford
member of: National Academy of Sciences

start time: 1993

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Royal Society of London
European Molecular Biology Organization
Australian Academy of Science
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Medicine
position held: President of the American Association for Cancer Research

start time: 2010
end time: 2011
field of work: cytogenetics
biology
physiology
occupation: biologist
university teacher
biochemist
molecular biologist
doctoral student: Carol Greider

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