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Professor Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian/American biological researcher who studies telomeres, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosomes. She was born on the 26th of November 1948 in Hobart, Tasmania. She is 66 years old and is currently a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco.
Details of Education and Training Professor Blackburn attended the Broadland House Church of England Girl’s Grammar School in Hobart until the age of sixteen. She then attended the University High School in Melbourne because of her family’s relocation to the city. Elizabeth went on to achieving a Bachelor in Science in 1972 from the University of Melbourne and her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1975.

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