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
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