Irving L. Weissman

Irving L. Weissman received the I.-H. Wachter 2007 for his seminal contributions in the fields of lymphocyte differentiation, homing receptors, identification and isolation of hemopoetic stem and progenitor cells, isolation of central nervous stem cells and progenitor cells, normal and neoplastic hematolymphoid development, tumor stem cells, and many achievements in other disciplines. .


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Name: Irving L. Weissman
Address: Stanford University, California

Born: 1939, Great Falls, Montana
Undergraduate Study of Zoology, Dartmouth College, Hannover NH
Montana State University, BS
Graduation in Medicine, Stanford University, 1965
Postgraduate Study in Oxford, UK
Assistant; Associate; Full Professor of Pathology, Stanford University
Professor of Pathology, Developmental Biology; (by courtesy) Biological Sciences and Neurosurgery, Stanford University
V. and DK Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation and Cancer Research, Stanford University
Director, Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center, Stanford University

Numerous Guest lectures, honours, Prizes and honorary memberships in scientific societies, including:
Member of the National Academy of Sciences 1989
The Harvey Lecture, 1989
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1990
Californian Scientist of the Year 2002
Linus Pauling Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Science, 2005
Honorary Doctorate Columbia University, New York, 2006

Chairman of the NAS Panel on Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Cloning 2001/2


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