Elizabeth Blackburn Scientist

Professor Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC, FRS, FAA, FRSN (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studies 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.She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially dismissed from the Bush Administration's President's Council on Bioethics.

Personal facts

Birth date	November 26, 1948
Birth place	Hobart , Tasmania , Australia
Citizenship	United States
Education	University of Melbourne University of Cambridge

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Scientist

awards	Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science Heineken Prizes Harvey Prize
doctoral advisor	Frederick Sanger
doctoral student	Carol W. Greider