Irving L. "Irv" Weissman M.D. is a Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology at Stanford University where he is the Director of the Stanford Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.
Weissman was raised in Great Falls, Montana and started his scientific career at the McLaughlin Research Institute there. He obtained his MD from Stanford University in 1965 after earning a BS from Montana State University in 1961. His research...
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Irving L. "Irv" Weissman M.D. is a Professor of Pathology and Developmental Biology at Stanford University where he is the Director of the Stanford Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.
Weissman was raised in Great Falls, Montana and started his scientific career at the McLaughlin Research Institute there. He obtained his MD from Stanford University in 1965 after earning a BS from Montana State University in 1961. His research has since focused on hematopoietic stem cell biology.
His awards include election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989, and being named California Scientist of the Year in 2002.
The Weissman laboratory's research encompasses the phylogeny and developmental biology of the cells that make up the blood-forming and immune systems. His laboratory was the first to identify and isolate the blood-forming stem cell from mice, and has defined, by lineage analysis, the stages of development between the blood forming stem cells and mature progeny ...
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