Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn to Receive 2012 American Institute of Chemists (AIC) Gold Medal

Biotechnology innovator awarded 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will accept AIC Gold Medal at Heritage Day 2012 at Chemical Heritage Foundation.PHILADELPHIA, PA— 30 March 2012—The American Institute of Chemists (AIC) has announced Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), will receive the 2012 AIC Gold Medal. It will be presented at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) during Heritage Day on Thursday, 12 April 2012. Heritage Day is CHF’s