Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, the Australian-born professor of biology and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, has been awarded ...
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Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, the Australian-born professor of biology and physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She shares the award with her colleagues, Carol Greider, PhD, professor of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore; and Jack Szostak, PhD, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School in Boston, who, according to the Nobel Prize Committee, “solved a major problem in biology: how the chromosomes can be copied in a complete way during cell divisions and how they are protected against degradation.”
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