Professor Elizabeth Blackburn (Commonwealth Scholar, University of Cambridge, 1973-1974) has been presented with her Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology.

On 7 December, Elizabeth delivered her Nobel Lecture at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She was introduced by Professor Thomas Perlmann, a member of the Nobel Assembly and associate member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

On 10 December she was presented with her Nobel Prize by King Carl Gustaf of Sweden at a ceremony in Stockholm.