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	Elizabeth Blackburn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blackburn was educated in the state of Victoria at the University of Melbourne earning a B.Sc.
		Blackburn is currently a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.
		Blackburn was appointed a member of the President's Council on Bioethics in 2001, and fired in February 2004 reportedly for taking to task the Chairman (Professor Leon Kass) over her outspoken opposition to the removal from the council's consideration of discussion on the ethics of research on human cells.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_Blackburn (421 words)

	Elizabeth Blackburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Elizabeth Blackburn is a leader in the area of telomere and telomerase research, and has made key discoveries in different aspects of telomere function and biology.
		Blackburn is currently the Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF, and also a Non-Resident Fellow of the Salk Institute.
		Blackburn is an elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1993), and an elected Member of the Institute of Medicine (2000).
	www.veniceconference2005.org /speakers/blackburn_e.htm (417 words)

	UCSF's Elizabeth Blackburn Receives Two Major Science Awards
		Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California San Francisco, has been named 1999 California Scientist of the Year and is the recipient of the 1998 Passano Award, two high honors in science.
		Blackburn received the honors for her pioneering studies on telomeres, segments of DNA that bind both ends of chromosomes, the gene-bearing strands of DNA whose integrity is essential for the healthy development and life span of organisms.
		Blackburn is president of the American Society for Cell Biology, an organization of nearly 9,000 members that provides for the exchange of scientific knowledge in cell biology and that strives to ensure the future of basic scientific research through training and development opportunities for students and young investigators.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1999-02/UoCS-UEBR-100299.php (470 words)

	The Blackburn Family of Washington County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		6 4 Andrew BLACKBURN was born in 1744 in Fredrick, Va. 7 5 James BLACKBURN was born in 1746 in Fredrick, Va. 8 6 Elizabeth BLACKBURN was born in 1749 in Fredrick, Va, and on Jan 23, 1768 in Fredrick, Va, married Thomas BAY.
		13 11 Samuel BLACKBURN was born in 1759 in Fredrick, Va, and on Mar 23, 1780 in Frederick Co., Va, married on Mar 23, 1780 in Fredrick, Va married Ann.
		40 3 Benjamin BLACKBURN was born in 1773 in Augusta, Va. 41 4 John BLACKBURN was born in 1774 in Augusta, Va, and on Sep 29, 1799 in Of Augusta Co., Va, married Lucy CARNEY.
	members.aol.com /JPayne5744/black.htm (2567 words)

	What Are You Working On? Writers on their works in progress
		Blackburn first sequenced telomeres, the specialized DNA at the end of chromosomes that preserves their integrity, and discovered telomerase, the enzyme that adds to telomeres.
		Blackburn also served on President Bush's bioethics council, protested repeated misrepresentation of scientific information in council reports, and was dismissed, which provoked protest from bioethicists and scientists across the country.
		I wanted to write this story for several reasons: first, Blackburn came of age as a scientist when women were a tiny minority of research scientists and faced enormous discrimination, so her story illuminates that history and also underscores the difficulties women continue to face.
	www.toobeautiful.org /waywo_catherinebrady.html (884 words)

	Elizabeth Helen Blackburn Biography / Biography of Elizabeth Helen Blackburn Biography
		American molecular biologist Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn (born 1948) is credited with the discovery of telomerase, an enzyme critical to the reproductive process of gene cells.
		Elizabeth H. Blackburn is renowned for her discovery of the genetic enzyme "telomerase." Blackburn isolated and precisely described telomeres in 1978, thus enhancing the understanding of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) on the part of molecular biologists around the world.
		Blackburn was born in Hobart, on the island of Tasmania (in Australia), on November 26, 1948.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-elizabeth-helen-blackburn (235 words)

	USATODAY.com - Scientists rally around stem cell advocate sacked by Bush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Blackburn's defenders think she was dismissed, rather, because she disapproved of the Bush administration's highly restrictive position on stem cell research, a stance many top scientists complain is hindering disease research in a promising area.
		Blackburn, who recently gained U.S. citizenship, said she accepted her appointment to the council in the days after Sept. 11, 2001, out of a sense of duty though she knew some of her views were at odds with those of its majority.
		In 1984, Blackburn was propelled to prominence in the cancer field after she co-discovered with Carol Greider the enzyme telomerase.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2004-03-18-eliz-blackburn_x.htm (749 words)

	About Dr. Blackburn
		Blackburn is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991), the Royal Society of London (1992), the American Academy of Microbiology (1993), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000).
		She was elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993, and was elected as a Member of the Institute of Medicine in 2000.
		Blackburn is a faculty member in the PIBS (Program in Biological Sciences) and BMS (Biomedical Sciences) graduate Ph.D. programs at UCSF, and a Program Member of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center.
	biochemistry.ucsf.edu /~blackburn/aboutdrblackburn.html (418 words)

	blog.bioethics.net - the bioethics web log
		If you followed the scandal you know that Blackburn was in fact very active in the discussions, by email, but that at the heart of the matter was the question of how to cast her contributions as a scientist to the public debate.
		Benjamin Franklin would have loved Elizabeth Blackburn, and no doubt it is that fact - as well as her basic science acumen - that insipred the judges at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia to award her the Benjamin Franklin medal, which has been awarded to truly outstanding scientists since 1824.
		Blackburn, an Australian who is now a U.S. citizen and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, was one of 18 people chosen in 2001 to serve on the President's Council on Bioethics.
	blog.bioethics.net /2005/03/elizabeth-blackburn-fired-by-president.html (612 words)

	DAYBREAK - Blackburn Finds Promise of Cancer Cure at the Cellular Level
		According to Blackburn, the experiment also confirmed that having an active telomerase present is one of the things that allows cells to keep on dividing.
		Blackburn is excited about recent results that have come out of her lab at UCSF, but was unable to discuss specifics because they haven't been published.
		Blackburn lives in San Francisco with her husband, Jon Sadat, and their son, Ben -- two of the main factors in her decision to move from UC Berkeley to UCSF in 1990.
	www.ucsf.edu /daybreak/1998/03/330_black.htm (1006 words)

	KNAW > The Heineken Prizes > Laureates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Elizabeth Blackburn has been given the sobriquet 'Queen of the Telomeres' because virtually everything we know about the form and function of the ends of chromosomes began with her.
		Blackburn's research group made the spectacular discovery that, although telomeres become shorter during cell division - to the point that cells are no longer capable of dividing - they in fact also replicate, and do so in a way entirely different from the rest of the chromosomal DNA.
		Blackburn has even said that cancer cells are 'addicted to telomerase', and found that reducing the quantity of telomerase is enough to kill off cancer cells within a few days.
	www.knaw.nl /cfdata/heineken/laureates_detail.cfm?winnaar__id=49 (671 words)

	National Politics & Policy \| President's Bioethics Council Member, Former Member Publish Critique of Two of Council's ...
		Blackburn and Rowley, who were two of three full-time scientists on the council, say that the council's January 2004 report, titled "Monitoring Stem Cell Research," "overstate[s]" the potential of research using adult stem cells, while it "play[s] down" the potential of embryonic stem cell research, according to the
		Blackburn said that although the council is supposed to be impartial, the reports have "seemed to be driven by a preexisting agenda and did not accurately portray the scientific underpinnings of the ethical issues the council was grappling with," according to the
		Blackburn and Rowley's critique marks the "sharpest public split" in the council since it was formed in 2001, according to the
	www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=2&DR_ID=22550 (605 words)

	2005 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Elizabeth Helen Blackburn Ph.D. Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology
		Citation: The 2005 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science is awarded to Elizabeth Blackburn for her advancements in understanding how the cell preserves the ends of chromosomes—telomeres—while replicating its DNA.
		Elizabeth Blackburn's work created a new field in molecular biology—the molecular description of telomeres—that has outstanding implications for disease and aging.
	www.fi.edu /tfi/exhibits/bower/05/life.html (248 words)

	Elizabeth Blackburn and Janet Rowley awarded
		Prior to her work, all that was known about telomeres (from the Greek word for 'end' and 'part') was that they became shorter with each cell division and, by implication, served as a kind of biological clock that was partly responsible for natural aging.
		More recently, Blackburn has been applying her insights into telomere biology to the development of a new anti-cancer therapy that forces cells with active telomerase to make errors during telomere synthesis, effectively triggering cellular suicide.
		As the enzyme normally is damped down at a certain time in the life of many types of cells, scientists also are exploring whether it could be carefully reactivated to prolong cell life, in order to treat age-related and neurodegenerative disorders, ranging from skin wrinkles to blindness to cardiovascular disease.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-03/aafc-eba031705.php (1012 words)

	Why Science Must Adapt to Women by Peggy Orenstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Elizabeth Blackburn is talking about chromosomes, which isn't surprising: She is the biologist who in 1978 first established that telomeres, caps on the ends of chromosomes, protect critical genetic material from eroding during cell division.
		Elizabeth Blackburn is hard-pressed to recall ever being told that because she was female she couldn't be a scientist.
		As she talks, Blackburn sits in the living room of the house she shares with her husband, John Sedat, a cell biologist and microscopy expert at UCSF who works on three-dimensional structures of chromosomes in nuclei, and their 15-year-old son, Ben.
	www.farfilm.com /peggy/articles/whysciencemustadapt.htm (2749 words)

	President's Council on Bioethics
		Dr. Blackburn states that she believes she was dismissed because she disapproved of the Bush administration's restrictive position on stem cell research.
		Blackburn and May—and the subsequent appointment of new panel members who are supportive of the administration's stated positions, significantly limits the range of views now available to the president on bioethical issues.
		As Dr. Blackburn herself has pointed out, she was one of only three full-time biomedical scientists on the panel, which, even prior to her dismissal, was weighted heavily to nonscientists with strong ideological views.
	www.ucsusa.org /scientific_integrity/interference/presidents-council-on-bioethics.html (691 words)

	Distinguished Guests of the 1999 California State Science Fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Professor Blackburn received the award for her discovery of the enzyme telomerase and its role in the maintenance of telomeres; the linkage between telomeres and the cell cycle; and the applications of telomerase to novel cancer treatments.
		Blackburn is presently Chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco.
		Dr. Blackburn is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, Australia with a B.Sc.
	www.usc.edu /CSSF/History/1999/VIPs.html (349 words)

	Eddings, descendants of John and Elizabeth Weaver Eddings
		Elizabeth Gertrude3 Middleton (Nancy Elizabeth2 Eddings, John1) was born November 11, 1830 in Warren Co., Tennessee, and died March 22, 1896 in Lockwood, Dade Co., Missouri.
		Ophelia Alberty Blackburn, born 1865 in unknown; died Unknown in unknown.
		Oma Florrence Blackburn, born 1871 in unknown; died 1874 in unknown.
	www.cookshangout.com /eddings/eddings.html (17694 words)

	Brown/Dunn & Harbison/Garrard
		BLACKBURN was born on 7 Mar 1921 in, Angelina, Texas.
		BLACKBURN was born on 27 Feb 1926 in, Angelina, Texas.
		Winnie Elizabeth BLACKBURN was born on 10 Oct 1913 in, Nacogdoches, Texas.
	www.hal-pc.org /~wibr/d19.htm (563 words)

	UCSF
		Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the UCSF School of Medicine, will be the Keynote Speaker at the School of Dentistry's fourth Research Day, Pathways to Research, on October 20, 2005.
		Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ph.D., is a leader in the area of telomere and telomerase research.
		Blackburn and her research team are working with a variety of organisms and human cancer cells, with the goal of understanding telomerase and telomere biology.
	dentistry.ucsf.edu /news/news.asp?id=48 (451 words)

	A Discovery Of Her Own / UCSF researcher's pioneering work with `immortalizing enzyme' may hold key to stopping cancer, ...
		Blackburn, born 51 years ago in Tasmania, was one of seven children.
		Telomeres, Blackburn is fond of explaining, hold the two ends of chromosomes together like the plastic caps that prevent shoelaces from unraveling.
		Just last week, Blackburn and colleagues reported in the journal Science that they had discovered a region of the telomerase molecule that could prove to be a target for killing cancer cells or regenerating dying cells.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/05/08/MN102163.DTL&type=science (1434 words)

	National Politics & Policy \| Bush Dismisses Two Members of Bioethics Council, Appoints Three New Members - ...
		On Friday, Bush dismissed Elizabeth Blackburn, a cell biologist at the University of California-San Francisco, and William May, a medical ethicist and retired professor at Southern Methodist University.
		However, Blackburn said she believes she was dismissed from the council because "her political views do not match those of" Bush and council Director Leon Kass, a University of Chicago ethicist, the
		Elizabeth Marincola, executive director of the American Society for Cell Biology, said that Blackburn and May often were in the minority on the 17-member council.
	www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=22428 (580 words)

	UCSF Magazine: The Female Factor Part One: Women and Science at Mission Bay
		Yet encouraging as those numbers are, UCSF cell biologist Elizabeth Blackburn -- known for her discovery of the enzyme telomerase and the subsequent proving of how telomeres, the protective tips of chromosomes, erode as cells divide -- is not satisfied.
		Indeed, Blackburn, the parent of a 16-year-old, has added her voice to a growing national movement to change the culture of science to accommodate the needs of women.
		Blackburn, who will soon move to new quarters at UCSF Mission Bay, also worries about the science missed.
	pub.ucsf.edu /magazine/200305/femalefactor.html (740 words)

	UCSF Today - Blackburn Explains Award-winning Research
		Blackburn delivered the 2005 Gladstone Distinguished Lecture in Molecular and Cell Biology on March 7.
		At UCSF Mission Bay, Blackburn leads a laboratory team that is analyzing telomerase and telomeres in yeasts and in human cancer cells to understand their full roles in cell division processes.
		Blackburn, Epel and colleagues discovered that chronic stress, and the perception of life stress, each had a significant impact on three biological factors-- the length of telomeres, the activity of telomerase and levels of oxidative stress -- in immune system cells known as peripheral blood mononucleocytes in healthy premenopausal women.
	pub.ucsf.edu /today/news.php?news_id=200503151 (715 words)

	Blackburn Family of Ashe, Watauga and Wilkes County
		Benjamin Blackburn, a clergyman, came to this country in 1774 from Scotland.
		Elizabeth's will can be found at the Ashe County, North Carolina Courthouse in Jefferson, North Carolina (Book A, Page 39, dated September 27, 1804).
		During the Civil War, the Blackburn's were often the subject of raids by Confederate soldiers.
	www.fmoran.com /wilkes/blackb.html (350 words)

	Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program \| University of California, San Francisco
		Blackburn, E.H. Switching and signaling at the telomere.
		A universal telomerase RNA core structure includes structure motifs required for binding the telomerase reverse transcriptase protein.
		Epel, E.S., E.H. Blackburn, J. Lin, F. Dhabar, N. Adler, J. Morrow, and R. Cawthon.
	www.ucsf.edu /bms/faculty/blackburn.html (381 words)

	Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Janet D. Rowley Awarded 2005 Landon-AACR Prizes for Cancer Research \| American Association ...
		Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Janet D. Rowley Awarded 2005 Landon-AACR Prizes for Cancer Research
		Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ph.D., Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology with the University of California, San Francisco, who has been awarded the Kirk A. Landon-AACR Prize for Basic Cancer Research; and
		For more than a quarter century, Elizabeth H. Blackburn has been investigating the structure and role of telomeres, the tips of genetic material at the end of chromosomes.
	www.aacr.org /Default.aspx?p=1275&d=276 (1077 words)

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