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California Professor to Receive Medical School's Beering Award

Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., whose research focus is the normal processes of cell death for the development of new techniques for treating cancer cells, is the recipient of the 2003 Steven C. Beering Award at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

The award will be presented during the annual Beering Lecture at 8:30 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 5, in the University Place Conference Center auditorium. Dr. Blackburn's topic is "Telemeres and Telomerase in Human Health and Disease."

Blackburn is a professor in the departments of biochemistry and biophysics and microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. Her groundbreaking research has earned her numerous honors, including the National Academy of Science Award in Molecular Biology (1990), the California Scientist of the Year Award (1999), the American Cancer Society's Medal of Honor for Basic Research Award (2000) and the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Award (2001).

Presented annually, the Beering Award honors an internationally recognized individual for contributions to the advancement of biomedical or clinical science. The award was named in honor of Dr. Steven C. Beering, who served as dean of the IU School of Medicine from 1974 to 1983, then as president of Purdue University for 17 years, retiring in 2000.

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