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Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.

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Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University California San Francisco. Professor Blackburn, a distinguished cell biologist whose research is on telomerase and chromosome telomere structure, holds a number of awards and prizes, including the California Scientist of the Year Award (1999), American Association for Cancer Research-Pezcoller Foundation International Award for Cancer Research (2001), and the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Award (2001). She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991) , an elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1993), and a member of the Institute of Medicine (2000). She has also served as President of the American Society for Cell Biology (1998).


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