Clare Blackburn Explained

Catherine Clare Blackburn 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.^[1]

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.^{[2] [3]}

Blackburn is the Project Coordinator of the pan-European EuroStemCell public engagement initiative.^[4] She has also co-produced a number of documentary films including the feature-length "Stem Cell Revolutions".^{[5] [6] [7]}

Honours and awards

In 2012, Blackburn was awarded the University of Edinburgh's Tam Dalyell Prize for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science.^[8] In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Notes and References

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