Scientific Advisory Board
Our Scientific Advisory Board members have published many of the discoveries that drive stem cell science today. We work closely with their laboratories in order to make their results reproducible simultaneously with publication whenever possible, and as soon as possible whenever it's not. Their investigations reflect the broad range of disciplines needed to energize the next new wave of breakthroughs. And when they do, you'll have the Stemgent reagents and tools you need to replicate their results.
SAB Members
Rudolf Jaenisch, M.D.Transgenics, iPS cells, reprogramming, and epigenetic regulation of gene expressionFounding Member, Whitehead InstituteProfessor of Biology, MIT
Rudolf Jaenisch received his M.D. at the University of Munich in 1967. After postdoctoral work at Princeton and Fox Chase Cancer Center, and five years as a Research Professor at the Salk Institute, he became Head of the Department of Tumor Virology at the Heinrich Pette Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology. Since 1984 he has been a Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute and Professor of Biology at M.I.T. and in 2005 he established the Human Stem Cell Facility at the Whitehead. Dr. Jaenisch is a pioneer in making transgenic mice, leading to some important advances in understanding cancer, neurological and connective tissue diseases, and developmental abnormalities. These mice have been used to explore basic questions such as the role of DNA modification, genomic imprinting, X chromosome inactivation, nuclear cloning, and, most recently, the nature of stem cells. The Jaenisch laboratory has used therapeutic cloning and gene therapy to rescue mice having a genetic defect and more recently, using a technique for turning skin cells into stem cells, they have cured mice of sickle cell anemia -- the first direct proof that these easily obtained cells can reverse an inherited disease. Selected Honors and Awards:
1992- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow |
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