SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. --
A UC San Francisco professor is one of three people awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday.Elizabeth H. Blackburn is a professor of biology and physiology at UCSF. She and two other Americans won the 2009 prize for their discovery of a key mechanism in the genetic operations of cells. The finding has inspired new lines of research into cancer.
Blackburn and her two co-winners will split the $1.4 million prize.
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