Australian Medical Association Congratulates Professor Elizabeth Blackburn

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Article Date: 06 Oct 2009 - 10:00 PDT

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The AMA congratulates Professor Elizabeth Blackburn upon winning the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Tasmanian-born Professor Blackburn continues a great Australian tradition of high achievement internationally in science and medicine.

Professor Blackburn and her collaborators, Professor Carol Greider and Professor Jack Szostak, won the Prize for 'discovering how chromosomes protect themselves as cells divide - work that has inspired experimental cancer therapies, and which may offer insights into the ageing process'.

Professor Blackburn is in esteemed company alongside Sir Howard Florey (1945), Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet (1960), Sir John Carew Eccles (1963), Professor Peter Doherty (1996), and Professor Barry Marshall and Dr Robin Warren (2005) as an Australian winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

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Australian Medical Association

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