A Conversation with Elizabeth Blackburn
On the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's The Conversation Hour, host Richard Fidler interviews Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, on the topics of cancer research, telomeres and the telomerase enzyme, the aging process and Blackburn's "head-to-head confrontation with the Bush Administration" that resulted from her criticism of the administration's positions on biotechnology and stem cell research. Blackburn is Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF.
The Conversation Hour
August 9, 2006 Links: Blackburn Lab "Ethics Road Full of Sinkholes, Warn Two UCSF Legends"
April 21, 2006 "Blackburn Explains Award-winning Research"
March 16, 2005 "Influence: The Stem Cell Freeze: Blackburn's White House Firing Inflames Science Policy Issues"
August 2004 "'Bioethics and the Political Distortion of Biomedical Science'"
March 12, 2004 "Essay Criticizes Reports by President's Council on Bioethics"
March 8, 2004 "The Female Factor Part One: Women and Science at Mission Bay"
May 2003 "President Bush Appoints Blackburn to Bioethics Council"
January 18, 2002
The Conversation HourAugust 9, 2006 Links: Blackburn Lab "Ethics Road Full of Sinkholes, Warn Two UCSF Legends"
April 21, 2006 "Blackburn Explains Award-winning Research"
March 16, 2005 "Influence: The Stem Cell Freeze: Blackburn's White House Firing Inflames Science Policy Issues"
August 2004 "'Bioethics and the Political Distortion of Biomedical Science'"
March 12, 2004 "Essay Criticizes Reports by President's Council on Bioethics"
March 8, 2004 "The Female Factor Part One: Women and Science at Mission Bay"
May 2003 "President Bush Appoints Blackburn to Bioethics Council"
January 18, 2002