Clare Blackburn
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Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBiology
Institutions
ThesisA study of the secreted acetylcholinesterases of Nippostrongylus basiliensis (1991)
Websitewww.ed.ac.uk/profile/clare-blackburn

Catherine Clare Blackburn FRSE is a British biologist. She received her Bachelor of Science degree at University of Edinburgh in 1984 and her PhD at Imperial College London in 1991. Following Wellcome Trust fellowships at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, University of Oxford, she returned to the University of Edinburgh in 1997. Since 2011, she has been Professor of Tissue Stem Cell Biology at the Centre for Regenerative Medicine.[2]

Blackburn's group focuses on the research of thymus development. In 2014, they successfully created functional thymus cells from fibroblasts of a mouse, using the reprogramming technique.[3][4]

Blackburn is the Project Coordinator of the pan-European EuroStemCell public engagement initiative.[5] She has also co-produced a number of documentary films including the feature-length "Stem Cell Revolutions".[6][7][8]

Honours and awards

In 2012, Blackburn was awarded the University of Edinburgh's Tam Dalyell Prize for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science.[9] In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Professor Catherine Clare Blackburn FRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 24 August 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Prof Clare Blackburn, Personal Chair in Tissue Stem Cell Biology". Edinburgh Research Explorer. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  3. ^ University of Edinburgh. "Scientists grow an organ in an animal from cells created in lab". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  4. ^ Bredenkamp, Nicholas; Ulyanchenko, Svetlana; O’Neill, Kathy Emma; Manley, Nancy Ruth; Vaidya, Harsh Jayesh; Blackburn, Catherine Clare (September 2014). "An organized and functional thymus generated from FOXN1-reprogrammed fibroblasts". Nature Cell Biology. 16 (9): 902–908. doi:10.1038/ncb3023. PMC 4153409. PMID 25150981.
  5. ^ "About EuroStemCell | Europe's Stem Cell Hub". www.eurostemcell.org. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Stem Cell Revolutions". Stem Cell Revolutions. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Clare Blackburn Research Group". The University of Edinburgh.
  8. ^ "Clare Blackburn". IMDb. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  9. ^ "Tam Dalyell Prize for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 27 August 2020.

External links

Clare Blackburn at IMDb

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