Elizabeth Blackburn
Australian-American biological researcher
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Elizabeth Blackburn is an Australian-American biologist who conducted groundbreaking research on cells and aging. Her work has been important to understanding how cells function and deteriorate over time, contributing to advances in medicine and biology.
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- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,497x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,751x
- Global cancer statistics
· 2011 · cited 23,166x
- Comparing the Areas under Two or More Correlated Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves: A Nonparametric Approach
· 1988 · cited 19,149x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
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Elizabeth Helen Blackburn (born 26 November 1948) is an Australian–American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming the first Australian woman Nobel laureate.
She also worked in medical ethics, and was controversially dismissed from the Bush administration's President's Council on Bioethics. 170 scientists signed an open letter to the president in her support, maintaining that she was fired because of political opposition to her advice.
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