Martin Evans, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Martin Evans

Developmental biologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1941

Place of Birth: Stroud, England, United Kingdom

Profession: university teacher, geneticist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Martin Evans

  • Sir Martin John Evans (born 1 January 1941) is a British biologist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981.
  • He is also known, along with Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies, for his work in the development of the knockout mouse and the related technology of gene targeting, a method of using embryonic stem cells to create specific gene modifications in mice.
  • In 2007, the three shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of their discovery and contribution to the efforts to develop new treatments for illnesses in humans.He won a major scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge at a time when advances in genetics were occurring there and became interested in biology and biochemistry.
  • He then went to University College London where he learned laboratory skills supervised by Elizabeth Deuchar.
  • In 1978, he moved to the Department of Genetics, at the University of Cambridge, and in 1980 began his collaboration with Matthew Kaufman.
  • They explored the method of using blastocysts for the isolation of embryonic stem cells.
  • After Kaufman left, Evans continued his work, upgrading his laboratory skills to the newest technologies, isolated the embryonic stem cell of the early mouse embryo and established it in a cell culture.
  • He genetically modified and implanted it into adult female mice with the intent of creating genetically modified offspring, work for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2007.
  • Today, genetically modified mice are considered vital for medical research.

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