James Thomson (cell biologist)

James Alexander Thomson ( born December 20, 1958 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA) is an American cell biologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Thomson studied biophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign with a bachelor's degree in 1981 and then veterinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his doctorate in veterinary medicine Davor Solter 1985 and 1988 in molecular biology. 1989 to 1991 he was a post - doctoral student at the Primate In Vitro Fertilisation and Embryology Experimental Laboratory of the Oregon National Primate Research Center. 1992 to 1994 he completed a residency training ( residency ) in veterinary pathology at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. There he is now Professor and Director of Regenerative Biology of the Morgridge Institute for Research. He is since 2007 Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

He is the founder of Cellular Dynamics International in Madison for pharmaceutical applications of stem cell research.

In 1998 he published the first scientific study on the successful cultivation of stem cell lines from seven -day old human blastocysts: This was the beginning of stem cell research on embryonic stem cells.

The research project was Thomson - funded by the California company Geron - without the help of U.S. authorities. The embryos had Thomson's group of Israeli and US- based clinics, where they were created as part of IVF measures in the laboratory, but not been used at the cell donors.

In 2011 he received the King Faisal Prize for Medicine and the Albany Medical Center Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2001 he was on the cover of Time Magazine, which was dedicated to the U.S. cutting-edge research in medicine.