{"id":7917,"date":"2015-11-18T05:59:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T13:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/?post_type=disclosure&#038;p=7917"},"modified":"2015-11-18T06:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:36:38","slug":"nobel-laureate-elizabeth-blackburn-named-salk-institute-president","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/nobel-laureate-elizabeth-blackburn-named-salk-institute-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn named Salk Institute president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA JOLLA\u2014Nobel Prize-winning scientist Elizabeth Blackburn, a pioneering molecular biologist and highly respected leader in the scientific community, has been named president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBlackburn will join the Salk Institute from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. She will assume her new role effective January 1, 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs Salk\u2019s president, Blackburn will take the helm of the Institute\u2019s world-renowned scientific enterprise, leading a cadre of scientists as they push the frontiers of discovery in fields such as cancer, neuroscience, aging and plant biology.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cFew scientists garner the kind of admiration and respect that Dr. Blackburn receives from her peers for her scientific accomplishments and her leadership, service and integrity,\u201d says Irwin M. Jacobs, chairman of Salk&#8217;s Board of Trustees. \u201cHer deep insight as a scientist, her vision as a leader, and her warm personality will prove invaluable as she guides the Salk Institute on its continuing journey of discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure  class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blackburn.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cElizabeth\" blackburn\" width=\"\u201c500\"\" height=\"\u201c334\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD<\/p>\n<p> Image credit: Rob Searcey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blackburn won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for discovering the molecular nature of telomeres, the ends of chromosomes that serve as protective caps essential for preserving genetic information, and for co-discovering telomerase, an enzyme that maintains telomere ends. Both telomeres and telomerase are thought to play central roles in aging and diseases such as cancer, and her work helped launch entire new fields of research in these areas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNeben dem Nobelpreis hat Blackburn fast jeden wichtigen Wissenschaftspreis erhalten, darunter die Lasker-, Gruber- und Gairdner-Preise. Sie wurde 2007 in die TIME 100 aufgenommen, die j\u00e4hrliche Liste des Magazins der einflussreichsten Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten der Welt. Sie ist Mitglied zahlreicher renommierter wissenschaftlicher Gesellschaften, darunter die National Academy of Sciences, die National Academy of Medicine und die Royal Society of London.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBlackburn has shown an abiding commitment to public service in the scientific, academic and public policy arenas. She has served as president of both the American Association of Cancer Research and the American Society for Cell Biology, and has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including the influential journals Cell and Science.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nZur Steuerung der \u00f6ffentlichen Wissenschaftspolitik war sie Mitglied des Stem Cell Research Advisory Panel f\u00fcr die Legislative des Staates Kalifornien und Mitglied des President\u2019s Council of Bioethics, eines beratenden Ausschusses f\u00fcr den Pr\u00e4sidenten der Vereinigten Staaten.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBlackburn\u2019s tenure as Salk\u2019s president will begin on January 1, 2016. However, she is no stranger to the Institute. Since 2001, she has served as a Salk nonresident fellow, one of a group of leading scientists that advise the Institute\u2019s leadership and play key decision-making roles in the appointment and promotion of Salk professors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI am truly honored to be asked to be the next president of the Salk Institute. The Salk is full of absolutely terrific people and brimming with great science. Building on its distinguished history and current success, I am delighted to be playing a role in continuing and growing its major contributions to science and health research,&#8221; says Blackburn.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBlackburn wurde in der kleinen Stadt Hobart in Tasmanien, Australien, in eine Familie von \u00c4rzten und Wissenschaftlern geboren. Ihre Eltern waren beide Haus\u00e4rzte und ihr Gro\u00dfvater und Urgro\u00dfvater waren Geologen. Inspiriert von ihrer Faszination f\u00fcr Tiere und einer Biografie der ikonischen franz\u00f6sischen Wissenschaftlerin Marie Curie, entschied sich Blackburn, ebenfalls eine wissenschaftliche Karriere einzuschlagen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSie erwarb ihren Bachelor- und Masterabschluss in Biochemie an der Universit\u00e4t Melbourne und promovierte 1975 in Molekularbiologie an der University of Cambridge in England. Von 1975 bis 1977 absolvierte sie ein Postdoc-Studium an der Yale University.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBlackburn trat 1978 in die Fakult\u00e4t der University of California, Berkeley ein. 1990 wechselte sie an die University of California, San Francisco und leitete von 1993 bis 1999 die Abteilung f\u00fcr Mikrobiologie und Immunologie.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[],"disease-research":[],"class_list":["post-7917","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn named Salk Institute president - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/nobel-laureate-elizabeth-blackburn-named-salk-institute-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn named Salk Institute president - 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