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Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. [2] In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider.
Greider, Blackburn, and Szostak shared the 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for their work on telomeres, [33] before jointly receiving the Nobel Prize in 2009. In February 2014, Greider was named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University .
Thomas Robert Cech (born December 8, 1947) is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA. Cech discovered that RNA could itself cut strands of RNA , suggesting that life might have started as RNA . [ 1 ]
[2] [3] While commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Nobel specifically stated that the prize be awarded for "physiology or medicine" in his will. Because of this, the prize can be awarded in a broader range of fields. [3] The first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in 1901 to Emil Adolf von Behring, of Germany
While multiple companies offer telomere length measurement services, the utility of these measurements for widespread clinical or personal use has been questioned. [57] [58] Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn, who was co-founder of one company, promoted the clinical utility of telomere length measures. [59]
The following is a list of Clarivate Citation candidates considered likely to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. [1] Since 2023, fifteen out of 95 citation laureates starting in 2008 have eventually been awarded a Nobel Prize: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak (2009), Ralph M. Steinman (posthumously), Bruce Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann (2011), Shinya ...
J. Michael Bishop (born 1936), US microbial immunogeneticist, Nobel Prize-winner for oncogenes; Elizabeth Blackburn (born 1948), Australian-US biologist, Lasker Award and Nobel Prize for telomeres and telomerase; Günter Blobel (1936–2018), German-US biologist, Nobel Prize for protein targeting (address tags on proteins)
Epel co-published her first book with Elizabeth Blackburn in 2017, titled The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer. [2] While studying telomeres and the replenishing enzyme, telomerase, they discovered a vital role played by these protective caps that revolved around one central idea: aging of cells.