Helen Blau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetHelen Blau
American biochemist
Date of Birth: 08-May-1948
Place of Birth: London
Profession: biochemist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Helen Blau
- Helen Margaret Blau, Ph.D.
- is an internationally recognized American biologist and the Donald E.
- and Delia B.
- Baxter Foundation Professor and Director of the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
- She is known for establishing the reversibility of the mammalian differentiated state.
- Her landmark papers showed that nuclear reprogramming and the activation of novel programs of gene expression were possible, overturning the prevailing view that the differentiated state was fixed and irreversible.
- Her discoveries opened the door for cellular reprogramming and its application to stem cell biology.
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