Rudolf Jaenisch

Rudolf Jaenisch ( born April 22, 1942 in Miedzygorze, County Habelschwerdt, Lower Silesia ) is a German Molecular biologist and geneticist who has made ​​an outstanding contribution in particular to the development of the mouse model as a model to study human diseases.

Life

Rudolf Jaenisch studied at the University of Munich Medicine and graduated with his doctorate in 1967 from. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich and then went on to Princeton University. He remained there until 1972, after which he worked as assistant professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla in California until 1977. During the year he returned to Germany and directed until 1984, the Department of Tumor Virology, Heinrich -Pette - Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology at the University of Hamburg. In 1984 he was appointed professor at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Work

Rudolf Jaenisch is mainly concerned with medical research on he developed a mouse model. He is considered a pioneer in the field of transgenics research. His mouse model made ​​it possible to investigate the causes of a number of diseases to the model and also to study the role of modifications of DNA, the imprinting, and inactivation of the X chromosome in basic research.

Awards and Affiliations

Rudolf Jaenisch is a member of the Order Pour le Mérite, an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.