Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award

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Greider, C.W. and Blackburn, E.H. (1985) Identification of a specific telomere terminal transferase activity in Tetrahymena extracts. Cell 43: 405–413.

Greider, C.W. and Blackburn, E.H (1987) A telomeric sequence in the RNA of Tetrahymena telomerase required for telomere repeat synthesis. Nature 337: 331–337.

Yu, G.L, Bradley, J.D., Attardi, L.D. and Blackburn, E.H. (1990) In vivo alteration of telomere sequences and senescence caused by mutated Tetrahymena telomerase RNAs. Nature 344: 126–132.

McEachern, M.J. and Blackburn, E.H. (1995) Runaway telomere elongation cause by telomerase RNA mutations. Nature 376: 403–409.

Kim, M.M., Rivera, M.A., Botchkina, I.L., Shalaby, R., Thor, A.D., and Blackburn, E.H. (2001) A low threshold level of expression of mutant-template telomerase RNA is sufficient to inhibit tumor cell growth. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 7982–7987.