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Sir Martin John Evans FRS FMedSci FLSW (born 1 January 1941) is an English biologist who, with Matthew Kaufman, was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981.
Martin Evans, British scientist who, with Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies, won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for developing gene targeting, a technology used to create animal models of human diseases in mice. Learn more about Evans’s life and work.
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Learn about the ground-breaking discoveries of Sir Martin Evans, the first scientist to identify embryonic stem cells and a pioneer in gene targeting. He is a professor and former president of Cardiff University, where he has been a key figure in establishing it as a world-leading centre for biomedical research.
Evans shared the Nobel Prize for his discovery of how to modify mouse DNA using embryonic stem cells. This breakthrough enabled other researchers to study the functions of specific genes and develop new treatments for diseases.
Dec 22, 2007 · Martin Evans: joint winner of 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine. View Large Image. Copyright © 2007 Supplied by Cardiff University. When do Nobel Prize winners first realise that their work may have the magic ingredient: the quality to catch and hold the attention of the sceptical men in Stockholm?
- Geoff Watts
- 2007
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007 was awarded jointly to Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007 was awarded jointly to Mario R. Capecchi, Sir Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells".
