ELIZABETH H. BLACKBURN

2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. Background Born: November 26,1948 Place of birth: Hobart, Tasmania Nationality: Australia Residence: United States Affiliation: University of California, San Francisco Address: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California, San Francisco 600 16th Street, GH-S312F, Box 2200 San Francisco, CA 94158-2517 Tel: 415-476-2824 Fax: 415-514-2913 E-mail: elizabeth.blackburn@ucsf.edu Education: University of Melbourne, Australia, Biochemistry, BSc 1970 University of Melbourne, Australia, Biochemistry, MSc 1972 University of Cambridge, England, Molecular Biology, PhD 1975 Yale University, United States, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Postdoctoral Fellowship 1975-1977 Book Store Elizabeth Blackburn and the Story of Telomeres: Deciphering the Ends of DNA by Catherine Brady Telomeres, Second Edition (Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Series) by Vicki Lundblad (Author, Editor), Elizabeth Blackburn (Author, Editor), Titia de Lange (Editor) Books on Elizabeth H. Blackburn Books on Telomeres and Telomerases Featured Internet Links Prize co-recipient: Carol W. Greider Prize co-recipient: Jack W. Szostak Female Nobel Prize Laureates PubMedline search results for this laureate Official award announcement and background Blackburn Lab Research UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center The Time 100 Wikipedia Entry Search WWW Search The Nobel Prize Internet Archive Links added by Nobel Internet Archive visitors

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