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Michael Wigler

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Michael Wigler · Science & Medicine

What

Molecular biologist who identified human oncogenes and advanced cancer genomics

When

1947, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Michael Wigler is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Molecular biologist who identified human oncogenes and advanced cancer genomics

How & why

Wigler is an American molecular biologist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who developed DNA-transfer methods that let researchers isolate the first human oncogenes, and later advanced genome-analysis techniques used to map cancer and autism-related copy-number variation. He is Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science

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Molecular biologist who identified human oncogenes and advanced cancer genomics

1947

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science