James Thomson (cell biologist)
James Alexander Thomson (born December 20, 1958 in Oak Park , Illinois , USA ) is an American cell biologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison .
Life
Thomson studied biophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's degree in 1981 and then veterinary medicine from the University of Pennsylvania , where he received his doctorate in veterinary medicine in 1985 and molecular biology with Davor Solter in 1988 . From 1989 to 1991 he was a post-doctoral student at the Primate In Vitro Fertilization and Experimental Embryology Laboratory of the Oregon National Primate Research Center. From 1992 to 1994 he completed a residency in veterinary pathology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . Today he is Professor and Director of Regenerative Biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research. He has also been an adjunct professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 2007 .
He is the founder of Cellular Dynamics International in Madison for pharmaceutical applications of stem cell research.
In 1998 he published the first scientific study on the successful cultivation of stem cell lines from seven-day-old human blastocysts : this was the beginning of stem cell research on embryonic stem cells .
The Thomson research project was funded by the Californian company Geron without any funding from the US authorities . Thomson's research group obtained the embryos from Israeli and US clinics, where they were created as part of IVF measures in the laboratory, but were no longer used by the cell donors.
In 2011 he received the König Faisal Prize for Medicine and the Albany Medical Center Prize . He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences . In 2001, he was on the cover of Time Magazine , which was dedicated to America's cutting edge research in medicine.
literature
- James A. Thomson et al. a .: Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocysts. In: Science , Volume 282 (1998), pp. 1061-1062
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| SURNAME | Thomson, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thomson, James Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cell biologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oak Park , Illinois , USA |