Janet Rossant

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Janet Rossant

Janet Rossant CC (born July 13, 1950 in Chatham , United Kingdom ) is a British- Canadian developmental biologist and geneticist .

Life

Rossant acquired in 1972 at the University of Oxford , England , a Master in Zoology and 1976 at Richard L. Gardner at the University of Cambridge a Ph.D. with a thesis on the developmental biology of mammals. She returned to Oxford as a postdoctoral fellow before receiving her first professorship (assistant professor) in biology at Brock University in St. Catharines , Canada , in 1977 . In 1981 she became an associate professor there . In the same year she received an additional position as adjunct professor of pathology at McMaster University in Hamilton . In 1985 Rossant moved to the University of Toronto as an Associate Professor of Medical Genetics , and in 1988 she was given a full professorship there. From 1985 to 2002 she also conducted research at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto . Rossant is also (as of 2013) Head of Research in the Department of Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, holds a professorship in Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto and heads the Center for Modeling Human Disease , also in Toronto.

Act

With her work on the mouse model organism, Rossant was able to contribute significantly to the understanding of the entire reproductive and developmental cycle of mammals . She developed numerous techniques to track the fate of individual cells or the changes in individual genes. Rossant created several mouse models that can be used to study human congenital malformations and other disorders. With her work she tries to understand the genetic basis of the development of early cell lines and the origin of stem cells . She pays particular attention to the formation of blastocysts and trophoblasts , the development of the earliest orientation in the embryo and the signaling pathways that control the development of the vascular system.

Awards (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rossant, Janet (Biography) ( Word document, 142 kB) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (cas.cn); Retrieved March 19, 2013
  2. ^ Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (rsc-src.ca); Retrieved March 19, 2013
  3. ^ Robert L Noble Prize at the Canadian Cancer Society (cancer.ca); Retrieved March 19, 2013
  4. ^ Fellows of the Royal Society (royalsociety.org); Retrieved March 19, 2013
  5. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF, 520 kB) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); Retrieved March 19, 2013
  6. ↑ Canada's Health Researchers of the Year: CIHR Michael Smith Prizes in Health Research ( Memento of May 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (cihr-irsc.ca)
  7. ^ March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology. Previous recipients. ( Memento of February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Janet Rossant at the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org); Retrieved March 19, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Rossant, Janet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Canadian developmental biologist and geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Chatham , UK