January 16, 2002, to March 10, 2004
Professor Blackburn, a distinguished cell biologist whose research is on telomerase and chromosome telomere structure, holds a number of awards and prizes, including the California Scientist of the Year Award (1999); American Association for Cancer Research-Pezcoller Foundation International Award for Cancer Research (2001); the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Award (2001); and the 26th Annual Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research (2003). She is an elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1993), and was elected as a Member of the Institute of Medicine (2000). Dr. Blackburn is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991); the Royal Society of London (1992); the American Academy of Microbiology (1993); and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000). She has also served as President of the American Society for Cell Biology (1998).