Dr. Jaenisch is Whitehead Institute Founding Member and National Medal of Science recipient. His work focuses on how genes are expressed in mammalian development and how diseases develop. His work has expanded understanding of embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells. Dr Jaenisch’s lab was able to reprogram mouse cennls into pluripotent stem cells without the use of embryonic egg cells, and manipulated them to a method of treating sickle cell anemia and Parkinson’s diseas in mice and rat models.
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