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Rudolf Jaenisch, Ph.D. and professor of biology at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, is one of the founders of transgenic science
(gene transfer to create mouse models of human disease). His lab has produced
mouse models leading to new understanding of cancers and various neurological
diseases. He also has made important contributions to cloning technology.
Studies of cloned mice will help decipher how the genome from an adult
cell is reprogrammed to create a new organism. Jaenisch is a founding
Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, a non-profit,
independent research and educational institution with pathfinding programs
in cancer and AIDS research, structural biology, genetics, infectious
disease research, developmental biology, and transgenic science. He received
his doctorate in medicine from the University of Munich in 1967. He came
to the Whitehead from the University of Hamburg in Germany, where he was
head of the Department of Tumor Virology at the Heinrich Pette Institute.
Jaenisch is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and
the American Academy of Microbiology, and a member of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. In 1996, he was awarded the Boehringer
Mannheim Molecular Bioanalytics Prize.
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