Ian Wilmut

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FRSE
Born(1944-07-07)7 July 1944
, Warwickshire, England
Died10 September 2023(2023-09-10) (aged 79)
Alma mater
Known for
Dolly the sheep
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Embryologist
Institutions
ThesisThe preservation of boar semen (1971)
Doctoral advisorChristopher Polge
Websitecrm.ed.ac.uk/research/group/redirecting-cell-fate

Sir Ian Wilmut

Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly.[11][12]

Wilmut was appointed

Early life and education

Wilmut was born in Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire, England, on 7 July 1944.[15] Wilmut's father, Leonard Wilmut, was a mathematics teacher who suffered from diabetes for fifty years, which eventually caused him to become blind.[16] The younger Wilmut attended the Boys' High School in Scarborough, where his father taught.[17] His early desire was to embark on a naval career, but he was unable to do so due to his colour blindness.[18] As a schoolboy, Wilmut worked as a farm hand on weekends, which inspired him to study Agriculture at the University of Nottingham.[17][19]

In 1966, Wilmut spent eight weeks working in the laboratory of Christopher Polge, who is credited with developing the technique of cryopreservation in 1949.[20] The following year Wilmut joined Polge's laboratory to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Cambridge, from where he graduated in 1971 with a thesis on semen cryopreservation.[21] During this time he was a postgraduate student at Darwin College.[22]

Career and research

After completing his PhD, he was involved in research focusing on gametes and embryogenesis, including working at the Roslin Institute.[17]

Wilmut was the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a lamb named

pluripotent stem cells from differentiated adult skin cells, thus circumventing the need to generate embryonic stem cells. Wilmut believed that this method holds greater potential for the treatment of degenerative conditions such as Parkinson's disease and to treat stroke and heart attack patients.[26]

Wilmut led the team that created Dolly, but in 2006 admitted his colleague Keith Campbell[28] deserved "66 per cent" of the invention that made Dolly's birth possible, and that the statement "I did not create Dolly" was accurate.[29] His supervisory role is consistent with the post of principal investigator held by Wilmut at the time of Dolly's creation.

Wilmut was an Emeritus Professor at the

New Year Honours for services to science.[18]

Wilmut and Campbell, in conjunction with Colin Tudge, published The Second Creation in 2000.[31][15] In 2006 Wilmut's book After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning was published,[32] co-authored with Roger Highfield.

Death

Wilmut died from complications of Parkinson's disease on 10 September 2023, aged 79.[33][15]

Awards and honours

In 1998 he received the Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award[34] and the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[35]

Wilmut was appointed

EMBO Member in 2003.[5]

In 1997 Wilmut was Time magazine man of the year runner up.[27] He was knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours for services to science.[22][37]

Publications

  • Wilmut, Ian; Campbell, Keith; Tudge, Colin (2000). The Second Creation: The Age of Biological Control by the Scientists Who Cloned Dolly. London: Headline. .
  • Wilmut, Ian; Highfield, Roger (2006). After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning. Norton. .

References

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  3. ^ a b "File relating to Ian Wilmut's Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2000–2005". Collections.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  4. ^ "Ian Wilmut Ernst: Schering Prize 2002". Schering Stiftung. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  5. ^ a b Anon (2003). "EMBO Profile: Ian Wilmut". people.embo.org. Heidelberg: European Molecular Biology Organization.
  6. ^ "Paul Ehrlich Foundation: Prize Winners: 2005 Wilmut". Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  7. ^ a b "The 2008 Prize in Life Science & Medicine". Shaw Prize Foundation. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Professor Sir Ian Wilmut FRS FMedSci FRSE | Royal Society". Archived from the original on 20 August 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  9. ^ "Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine". Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  10. ^ "Redirecting Cell Fate, Group leader: Ian Wilmut FRS, FRSE". Archived from the original on 23 April 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
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  13. ^ "Times Higher Education: Queen's Birthday Honours". Times Higher Education. 18 June 1999. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  14. ^ "Dolly creator heads Scots honours". BBC News. 29 December 2007. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  15. ^ a b c "Sir Ian Wilmut obituary". The Guardian. 11 September 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  16. ^ a b c "Autobiography of Sir Ian Wilmut". The Shaw Prize. 2008. Archived from the original on 15 June 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  17. ^ a b "Dolly the sheep creator knighted". BBC. 29 December 2007. Retrieved 30 December 2007.
  18. ^ "Ian Wilmut Interview: Pioneer of Cloning". Academy of Achievement. 23 May 1998. Archived from the original on 23 March 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
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  21. ^ a b c "WILMUT, Sir Ian". Who's Who. Vol. 1999 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)[unreliable source?]
  22. ^ "The Third Culture: Ian Wilmut". Edge.org. Archived from the original on 13 January 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
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  25. ^ Highfield, Roger (16 November 2007). "Dolly creator Prof Ian Wilmut shuns cloning". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 2 December 2007. Retrieved 11 December 2007.
  26. ^ a b Nash, Madeleine (29 December 1997). "Dr Ian Wilmut...and Dolly". Time. Archived from the original on 4 January 2007. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
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  28. ^ Cramb, Auslan (8 March 2006). "I didn't clone Dolly the sheep says prof". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  29. ^ "MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine".
  30. ^ Williams, Craig (11 September 2023). "Professor Sir Ian Wilmut: Dolly the sheep creator dies aged 79". The Herald. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  31. ^ "Foundation News" (PDF). Technology Innovation and Society (Winter 1998): 14. 1998.
  32. American Academy of Achievement
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  33. ^ "No. 55513". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1999. p. 14.
  34. ^ "No. 58557". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2007.

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