Elizabeth Blackburn

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Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC FRS FAA FRSN is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is currently the President of the Salk Institute.

Born:      Nov 26, 1948 (age 69)              Hobart, Australia

Education:  University of Cambridge University of Melbourne Yale University . Academic advisor: Frederick Sanger

Awards:  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2009) Gairdner Foundation International.

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Career

1978:    In 1978, Blackburn joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Molecular Biology.

2002:  Blackburn was appointed a member of the President's Council on Bioethics in 2002.

2006:  Elizabeth Blackburn was awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2006.

2007:  In 2007, Blackburn was listed among Time Magazine's The TIME 100—The People Who Shape Our World.

2009:  Elizabeth Blackburn was awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009.

Overview

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, AC FRS FAA FRSN, American Nobel laureate who is currently the President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. 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.

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Awards and honors

• Eli Lilly Research Award for Microbiology and Immunology (1988)

• National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology (1990)

• Harvey Society Lecturer at the Harvey Society in New York (1990)

• Honorary Doctorate of Science from Yale University (1991)

• Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991)

• Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1992

• Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology (1993)

• Foreign Associate of National Academy of Sciences (1993)

• Australia Prize (1998)

• Gairdner Foundation International Award (1998)

• Harvey Prize (1999)

• Keio Medical Science Prize (1999)

• California Scientist of the Year in 1999

• American Association for Cancer Research – G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award (2000)

• American Cancer Society Medal of Honor (2000)

• Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000)

• AACR-Pezcoller Foundation International Award for Cancer Research (2001)

• General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Award (2001)

• E.B.Wilson Award of the American Society for Cell Biology (2001)

• Bristol-Myers Squibb Award (2003)

• Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award (2003)

• Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine (2004)

• Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science of The Franklin Institute (2005)

• Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2006) (shared with Carol W. Greider and Jack Szostak)

• Genetics Prize from the Peter Gruber Foundation (2006)

• Honorary Doctorate of Science from Harvard University (2006)

• Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences from the Wiley Foundation (shared with Carol W. Greider)(2006)

• Fellow of Australian Academy of Science (2007)

• Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2007) Recipient of the UCSF Women's Faculty Association Award

• Honorary Doctorate of Science from Princeton University (2007)

• Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University (2007) (shared with Carol W. Greider and Joseph G. Gall)

• Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award (2008)

• L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (2008)

• Albany Medical Center Prize (2008)

• Pearl Meister Greengard Prize (2008)

• Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women (2008)

• Mike Hogg Award (2009)

• Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2009) (shared with Carol W. Greider)

• The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009, shared with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase"

• Companion of the Order of Australia (Australia Day Honours, 2010), for eminent service to science as a leader in the field of biomedical research, particularly through the discovery of telomerase and its role in the development of cancer and ageing of cells and through contributions as an international adviser in Bioethics.

• Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN) (2010)

• California Hall of Fame (2011)

• AIC Gold Medal (2012)

• The Royal Medal of the Royal Society (2015).

Blackburn was elected:

• President of the American Association for Cancer Research for the year 2010

• President of the American Society for Cell Biology for the year 1998

• Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1993)

• Member of the Institute of Medicine (2000)

• Board member of the Genetics Society of America (2000–2002)

In 2007, Blackburn was listed among Time Magazine's The TIME 100—The People Who Shape Our World.

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Questions:

1. When did she get the Albany Medical Center Prize?

2. What is the meaning of" laureate"?

3. Who is her academic advisor ?

4. Was she got the Honorary Doctorate of Science from Harvard University in 2007?

5. Do you think Elizabeth Blackburn is successful? Why?