Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, 60, of the University of California, San Francisco was named  to receive the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Blackburn shares the award with Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Jack W. Szostak of Harvard Medical School Dr.  Blackburn, pictured here in 2004 in her lab at Genentech Hall, is a leader in the area of telomere and telomerase research.  Photo by Kim Kulish