Irving Weissman
Irving Weissman · Science & Medicine
Biologist who first isolated blood-forming stem cells, a landmark in stem cell science.
1939, Great Falls, Montana, United States
United States (Stanford University)
Irving Weissman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biologist who first isolated blood-forming stem cells, a landmark in stem cell science.
Weissman was the first to isolate blood-forming (hematopoietic) stem cells — from mice in 1988 and later from humans — a landmark that founded modern stem-cell science and enabled bone-marrow and regenerative therapies; he also identified cancer stem cells in leukaemia. He directs Stanford's Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. He grew up in a working-class Jewish family in Great Falls, Montana, the grandson of a Jewish immigrant from Russia.
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Biologist who first isolated blood-forming stem cells, a landmark in stem cell science.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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