Blackburn Receives Nobel Prize at Spectacular Ceremony
UCSF molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn accepted the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine during a majestic ceremony in the Stockholm Concert Hall Thursday.
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Give to UCSFUCSF molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn accepted the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine during a majestic ceremony in the Stockholm Concert Hall Thursday.
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.
When UCSF’s Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, was named one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct. 5, the seemingly endless stream of well-wishers included not only friends, relatives and colleagues, but also several prominent political figures.
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to UCSF’s Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD – along with Carol Greider, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Jack Szostak, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital – recognizes the importance of the most fundamental kind of basic biological science.
The latest recommendations about breast cancer screening are part of a necessary trend toward more personalized, risk-based care, several UCSF experts say.
In a conversation with Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, newly named Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn covered a range of topics, including career highs and lows and the particular struggles of working women.
From anxiety to exhilaration to burgers with the boss, the 14 members of Elizabeth Blackburn's lab share the exciting hours surrounding the Oct. 5 Nobel Prize announcement.
Symbolizing a major triumph for UCSF, the University of California and the scientific community at large, molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, became UCSF's fourth scientist to be tapped to receive the prestigious 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.
Decision Services, a UCSF program that provides breast cancer patients with information and one-on-one support as they grapple with major treatment decisions, was recently honored by the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation.
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 will once again participate in the American Heart Association’s “Heart Walk” on September 18 and 26 to raise money for the fight against heart disease and stroke.
June Chan, who specializes in the study of nutritional and hormonal risk factors for prostate cancer, has been named the Steven and Christine-Burd Safeway Endowed Chair.
UCSF researchers have discovered inherited DNA that increases risk for the most deadly brain cancers.