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.
University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFMolecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn joined Nobel laureates in Stockholm to discuss their discoveries and what their ongoing research tells us about health, cancer and aging.
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.
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