Chromosome Ends and Human Health and Disease
Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Elizabeth H. Blackburn,
was the Second Edition Speaker of the Cell Press-TNQ India
Distinguished Lectureship Series
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, on November 26, 1948,
Blackburn attended both primary and secondary school in Tasmania
and New South Wales. After graduation from high school, she
attended the University of Melbourne on a full scholarship,
earning both a B.Sc. (1970) and an M.Sc. (1972). She earned her
Ph.D. (1975) from the University of Cambridge in England. Her
post-doctoral study in molecular and cellular biology was at Yale
University (1975-1977).
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