Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former President of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Previously she was a biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who studied the telomere, a structure at the end of chromosomes that protects the chromosome. 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.
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I am the author of the book 'Think Clearly' / Piensa claro, now in its fourth edition in Spain and soon to be published in English, Japanese, Korean and other languages.
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