SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — University of California, San Francisco professor Elizabeth Blackburn says she hopes her Nobel Prize in medicine will inspire others, especially young women in science.
Blackburn shared the prize Monday with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak. The trio won for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells, a development that has inspired new lines of research into cancer.
Scores of people turned out to congratulate Blackburn at the university's Mission Bay campus, cheering and raising champagne toasts.
Only 10 women have won the prestigious medicine award in Nobel Prize history.
Greider, a San Diego native, is a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. Szostak has been at Harvard Medical School since 1979 and is currently professor of genetics.
