Irving Weissman
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Irving Lerner "Irv" Weissman (born Great Falls, Montana, October 21, 1939)[1] is a Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology at Stanford University[2] where he is the Director of the Stanford Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine along with Michael Longaker.
Weissman was raised in Great Falls, Montana and started his scientific career at the
Early life
Weissman was not an exceptionally good student in high school.[3] He started assisting with medical research in 1956, when he got a summer job at Montana Deaconess Hospital. He preferred the idea of caring for laboratory mice and assisting in the lab to washing cars or similar jobs that were available to teenaged boys in the area. He was inspired by the idea that he could think scientifically and respond to a questioning, Socratic method, rather than didactic lectures about scientific facts. He ran his first experiment there during his senior year in high school, to see whether he could repeat an experiment that had recently been published. He attributes his admission to college and medical school to the resulting publications, rather than to his less-than-perfect grades.[3]
Awards
His awards include election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989, named California Scientist of the Year in 2002,[4] and elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2008.[5]
- 2008 Robert Koch Prize
- 2009 Rosenstiel Award [2]
- 2013 Max Delbrück Medal
- 2015 Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize[6]
- 2019 Albany Medical Center Prize[7]
- 2022 Wallace H. Coulter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Hematology
Research focus
He developed methods to identify stem cells, and has extensively researched stem cells and progenitor cells.
Weissman is also a leading expert in the field of cancer stem cell biology, where his work sheds light on the understanding of the pathogenesis of multiple human malignancies. He is also known for transgenic research in which human brain cells are grown in the brains of mice.
References
- ^ Weissman, Irving L., American Men and Women of Science, Eds. Pamela Kalte, Katherine Nemeh and Noah Schusterbauer, Vol. 7, 22nd Ed. Detroit: Gale, 2005, p552-553. Gale Document Number: CX3454833983. Retrieved November 8, 2010
- ^ a b "Faculty & Researcher Profiles - Irving Weissman". Stanford University Medical Center. Archived from the original on January 4, 2011. Retrieved August 27, 2011.
- ^ PMID 27168238.
- ^ "Irving Weissman, M.D. 2002 California Scientist of the Year". Archived from the original on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2008-06-09.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
- ^ "Brupbacher Preis – Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Stiftung". Archived from the original on 2018-10-23. Retrieved 2018-10-23.
- ^ Albany Medical Center Prize
- ^ [1]"Biography Format for Board of Trustees' Agenda: A brief introduction of Irving L. Weissman, M.D." Retrieved November 8, 2010
- ISBN 9781429219198.)
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