Clowes Memorial Award (2000)*American Cancer Society Medal of Honor (2000)*Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000)*Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award (2008)*AACR-Pezcoller Foundation International Award for Cancer Research (2001)*General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Award (2001)*E.B.Wilson Award of the American Society for Cell Biology (2001)*Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award (2003)*Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine (2004)*Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science of The Franklin Institute (2005)*Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2006) (shared with Carol W. Greider and Jack Szostak)*Genetics Prize from the Peter Gruber Foundation (2006)*Honorary Doctorate of Science from Harvard University (2006)*Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences from the Wiley Foundation (shared with Carol W. Greider)(2006)*Fellow of Australian Academy of Science (2007)*Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (2007)*Recipient of the UCSF Women's Faculty Association Award*Honorary Doctorate of Science from Princeton University (2007)*Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University (2007) (shared with Carol W. Greider and Joseph G. Gall)*L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (2008)* Mike Hogg Award (2009)*Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2009) (shared with Carol W. Greider)*Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (2009) (shared with Carol W. Greider and Jack Szostak)* Companion of the Order of Australia (Australia Day Honours, 2010), for "eminent service to science as a leader in the field of biomedical research, particularly through the discovery of telomerase and its role in the development of cancer and ageing of cells and through contributions as an international adviser in Bioethics.
Clowes Memorial Award (2000)* American Cancer Society Medal of Honor (2000)* AACR-Pezcoller Foundation International Award for Cancer Research (2001)* General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Alfred P. Sloan Award (2001)* Медаль Уилсона от Американского общества молекулярной биологии (2001)* Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Award (2003)* Премия Хейнекена (2004)* Премия Альберта Ласкера за фундаментальные медицинские исследования (совместно с Кэрол Грейдер и Джеком Шостаком) (2006)* Genetics Prize from the Peter Gruber Foundation (2006)* Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (совместно с Кэрол Грейдер и Джозефом Галлом) (2007)* Премия L’Oréal — ЮНЕСКО для женщин за вклад в науку L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (2008)* Mike Hogg Award (2009)* Нобелевская премия по физиологии и медицине (2009) (совместно с Кэрол Грейдер и Джеком Шостаком)* Избрана:** Президентом Американского общества клеточной биологии в 1998 году*** American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991)*** Лондонского королевского общества (1992)*** Американской академии микробиологии (1993)*** American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000)** Иностранный член (Foreign Associate) Национальной академии наук США (1993)** Член Institute of Medicine (2000)** Board member of the Genetics Society of America (2000—2002)* Страница Элизабет Блэкбёрн на сайте Калифорнийского университета в Сан-Франциско* Биография на сайте harvard.edu (по случаю получения звания почётного доктора наук Гарвардского университета)