Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn

AC FRS FAA FRSN
Elizabeth Blackburn; AC FRS FAA FRSN
	With AIC Gold Medal, 2012
Born	Elizabeth Helen Blackburn; 26 November 1948; Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Citizenship	Australian and American
Alma mater	University of Melbourne (BSc); University of Cambridge (PhD);
Awards	NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1990); Australia Prize (1998); Harvey Prize (1999); Dickson Prize (2000); Heineken Prize (2004); Lasker Award; Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize; ASCB Public Service Award (2004); Meyenburg Prize (2006); L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (2008); Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2009); AIC Gold Medal (2012);
	Scientific career
Fields	Molecular biology
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley; University of California, San Francisco; Yale University; MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Salk Institute;
Thesis	Sequence studies on bacteriophage ØX174 DNA by transcription (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Frederick Sanger
Doctoral students	Carol W. Greider
Website	biochemistry2.ucsf.edu/labs/blackburn

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC FRS FAA FRSN (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.

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