Rudolf Jaenisch was born on on April 22,1942 and is a Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
10 Facts About Rudolf Jaenisch
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Rudolf Jaenisch is a pioneer of transgenic science, in which an animal's genetic makeup is altered.
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In 2007, Rudolf Jaenisch's laboratory was one of the first three laboratories worldwide to report reprogramming cells taken from a mouse's tail into IPS cells.
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However, in 2001, Rudolf Jaenisch made a public case against human reproductive cloning, testifying before a US House of Representatives subcommittee and writing an editorial in Science magazine.
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Rudolf Jaenisch received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Munich in 1967, preferring the laboratory to the clinic.
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Rudolf Jaenisch became a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, studying bacteriophages.
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Rudolf Jaenisch left Germany in 1970 for research positions at Princeton University, Fox Chase Institute for Cancer Research and the Salk Institute.
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Rudolf Jaenisch returned to Germany in 1977 to become the head of the Department of Tumor Virology at the Heinrich Pette Institute at the University of Hamburg.
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Rudolf Jaenisch participated in the 2005 science conference on human cloning at the United Nations and serves on the science advisory boards of the Genetics Policy Institute and Stemgent.
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Rudolf Jaenisch served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2010.