Gail R. Martin

Professor Gail R. Martin, is in charge of the developmental biology program at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (Cellular and developmental biology), and is the President of the Society for Developmental Biology.^[1]

In 1981 Martin, working at the University of California, San Francisco,^[2] and Martin Evans and Matthew Kaufman, working at the University of Cambridge,^[3] England, separately and simultaneously discovered techniques for extracting stem cells from mouse embryos. Martin is attributed with coining the term "embryonic stem cell".

[edit] Career

1971 - Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.^[1]
Early 1970s - postdoctoral research at Martin Evans laboratory, University College London.^[1]
1976 - University of California, San Francisco, and became Professor in the Department of Anatomy, and she is now in charge of the PIBS Program in Developmental Biology.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Welcome to Gail Martin's Lab. University of California, San Francisco.
^ Martin G (December 1981). "Isolation of a pluripotent cell line from early mouse embryos cultured in medium conditioned by teratocarcinoma stem cells.". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 78 (12): 7634–8. doi:10.1073/pnas.78.12.7634. PMID 6950406.
^ Evans M, Kaufman M (July 1981). "Establishment in culture of pluripotential cells from mouse embryos.". Nature 292 (5819): 154–6. doi:10.1038/292154a0. PMID 7242681.
^ Edwin Grant Conklin Medal. Society for Developmental Biology.