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CQ Interview: Stem Cell Science and Politics: A Talk with Elizabeth Blackburn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2005

STEVE HEILIG
Affiliation:
San Francisco Medical Society, Bay Area Network of Ethics Committees, San Francisco, California, and Co-Editor of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Extract

Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ph.D., is a leader in the area of telomere and telomerase research—in fact, in 1984 she codiscovered the ribonucleoprotein enzyme telomerase, opening up new potentials in cancer research and therapy. This and subsequent work has earned her numerous honors, not the least of which are the National Academy of Science Award in Molecular Biology, an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Yale University, the American Cancer Society Medal of Honor, and many more awards. Dr. Blackburn is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of London, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and is a Member of the Institute of Medicine.

Type
CQ INTERVIEW
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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