Irving Lerner "Irv" Weissman was born on Great Falls, Montana, October 21,1939 and 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 along with Michael Longaker.
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Irving Weissman obtained his MD from Stanford University in 1965 after earning a BS from Montana State University in 1961.
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Irving Weissman's research has since focused on hematopoietic stem cell biology.
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Irving Weissman was not an exceptionally good student in high school.
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Irving Weissman started assisting with medical research in 1956, when he got a summer job at Montana Deaconess Hospital.
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Irving Weissman 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.
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Irving Weissman was inspired by the idea that he could think scientifically and respond to a questioning, Socratic method, rather than didactic lectures about scientific facts.
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Irving Weissman 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.
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Irving Weissman's awards include election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989, named California Scientist of the Year in 2002, and elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2008.
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Irving Weissman developed methods to identify stem cells, and has extensively researched stem cells and progenitor cells.
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Irving Weissman's laboratory purified stem cells from other mature cells, such as B cells, by observing the different lineage markers expressed by each immune cell type.
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Irving Weissman's work has contributed to the understanding of how a single hematopoietic stem cell can give rise to specialized blood cells.
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Irving Weissman is 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.
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Irving Weissman is known for transgenic research in which human brain cells are grown in the brains of mice.