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Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC FRS FAA FRSN[1] (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.[3] Previously she was a biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studied the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere. 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 only Tasmanian-born Nobel laureate. She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially dismissed from the Bush Administration's President's Council on Bioethics.[4]
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Born | Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (1948-11-26) 26 November 1948 (age 75) |
Citizenship | Australian and American |
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Fields | Molecular biology |
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Thesis | Sequence studies on bacteriophage ØX174 DNA by transcription (1974) |
Doctoral advisor | Frederick Sanger[2] |
Doctoral students | Carol W. Greider |
Website | biochemistry2 |