Elizabeth H. Blackburn

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Elizabeth H. Blackburn was born in Australia in 1948 and earned her PhD at Cambridge University in 1975. Blackburn moved to the United States that same year to complete her postdoctoral work at Yale University. Blackburn was a leader in the discovery of telomerase and cancer interception. Blackburn won the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009.