Elizabeth Blackburn - Bio, Age, Wiki, Facts and Family

Born on November 26, 1948 (age 73) in Hobart, Australia. She is a celebrity scientist.

Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian-American researcher who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology for pioneering research that led to the discovery of "telomerase," the enzyme that refills the telomere, a protective structure at the end of chromosomes. Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, two of her co-researchers, shared the Nobel Prize with her. She has received multiple major medals and distinctions during her career, including America's highest honor, the Albert Lasker Award in Basic Medical Research, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She was also named to the Royal Society of London, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology's list of Fellows. She worked in medical ethics for two years, including as a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, but was controversially fired owing to a disagreement with the Bush administration. She's been working on a study that looks at the effects of stress on telomerase and telomeres in recent years, with a focus on mindfulness meditation.

She married John W. Sedat and they have a son, Benjamin.

She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Science in 1970 and a Master of Science in 1972.

She served on the Science Advisory Board of the Genetics Policy Institute.

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Like her, scientist Alexandre Quintanilha worked at the University of California, Berkeley.

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