Elizabeth Blackburn, the Morris Herzstein Professor in Biology and Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, is a renowned researcher who has conducted groundbreaking work on DNA and cell division. She was previously a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley, in the Department of Molecular Biology, and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. The winner of many prestigious honors she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009. Updated 2010
Elizabeth Blackburn
Researcher
Born in: Australia
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