Elizabeth Blackburn Biography

In addition to the Nobel Prize Blackburn has received nearly every major award in science including the Lasker Gruber and Gairdner prizes. She was named to the TIME 100 in 2007 the magazine’s yearly list of the most influential people in the world. She is a member of numerous prestigious scientific societies including the National Academy of Sciences the National Academy of Medicine and the Royal Society of London.
Blackburn has shown an abiding commitment to public service in the scientific academic and public policy arenas. She has served as president of both the American Association of Cancer Research and the American Society for Cell Biology and has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals including the influential journals Cell and Science.
Helping to guide public science policy she was a member of the Stem Cell Research Advisory Panel for the California State Legislature and a member of the President’s Council of Bioethics an advisory committee to the President of the United States.
Since 2001 Blackburn has served as a Salk non-resident fellow one of a group of leading scientists that advise the Institute’s leadership and play key decision-making roles in the appointment and promotion of Salk professors. Blackburn’s tenure as Salk’s president began on January 1 2016.

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