UCSF's Elizabeth Blackburn Delivers Nobel Lecture
Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn joined Nobel laureates in Stockholm to discuss their discoveries and what their ongoing research tells us about health, cancer and aging.
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UCSF’s Elizabeth Blackburn Receives Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Molecular biologist Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, 60, of the University of California, San Francisco, received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on December 10th, 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Telomeres and the Remarkable Telomerase Enzyme
Telomeres — which are the DNA repeats that form the tips of chromosomes and are produced by the telomerase enzyme — play a crucial, and curious, role in the life of the cell.
UCSF’s Stanley Prusiner Named to Receive the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Stanley B. Prusiner, MD, 55, today was named to receive the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering and characterizing an entirely new class of proteins, called prions, which cause several rare and fatal neurodegenerative diseases.