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Elizabeth Blackburn

Researcher

Born in: Australia
Elizabeth Blackburn

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

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