Elizabeth Blackburn - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• Eli Lilly Research Award for Microbiology and Immunology (1988)
• National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology (1990)
• Honorary Doctorate of Science from Yale University (1991)
• Harvey Society Lecturer at the Harvey Society in New York (1990)
• Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of London (1992)
• Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology (1993)
• Australia Prize (1998)
• Gairdner Foundation International Award (1998)
• Harvey Prize (1999)
• Keio Medical Science Prize (1999)
• California Scientist of the Year in 1999
• California Hall of Fame (2011)
• American Association for Cancer Research - G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award (2000)
• American Cancer Society Medal of Honor (2000)
• Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000)
• Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award (2000)
• AACR-Pezcoller Foundation International Award for Cancer Research (2001)
• General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Award (2001)
• E.B.Wilson Award of the American Society for Cell Biology (2001)
• Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award (2003)
• Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine (2004)
• Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science of The Franklin Institute (2005)
• Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2006) (shared with Carol W. Greider and Jack Szostak)
• Genetics Prize from the Peter Gruber Foundation (2006)
• Honorary Doctorate of Science from Harvard University (2006)
• Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences from the Wiley Foundation (shared with Carol W. Greider)(2006)
• Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2007)*Recipient of the UCSF Women's Faculty Association Award
• Honorary Doctorate of Science from Princeton University (2007)
• Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2007) (shared with Carol W. Greider and Joseph G. Gall)
• L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (2008)
• Mike Hogg Award (2009)
• Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2009) (shared with Carol W. Greider)
• Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (2009) (shared with Carol W. Greider and Jack Szostak)
• Companion of the Order of Australia (Australia Day Honours, 2010), for eminent service to science as a leader in the field of biomedical research, particularly through the discovery of telomerase and its role in the development of cancer and ageing of cells and through contributions as an international adviser in Bioethics.
• Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN) (2010)

• Elected:
  • President of the American Association for Cancer Research for the year 2010
  • President of the American Society for Cell Biology for the year 1998

• • Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1993)
  • Member of the Institute of Medicine (2000)
  • Board member of the Genetics Society of America (2000–2002)

In 2007, Blackburn was listed among Time Magazine's The TIME 100—The People Who Shape Our World.