Steen Willadsen
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| Steen Willadsen | |
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| Born | 1944 Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Residence | Orlando, United States of America |
| Fields | embryologist |
| Alma mater | Royal Veterinary College of Copenhagen |
| Known for | The first cloning of a sheep. |
| Notable awards | Recipient of the 2005 Pioneer Award |
Steen Malte Willadsen (born 1944 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a scientist credited with being the first to clone a farm animal using nuclear transfer.[1]
Willadsen attended the Royal Veterinary College of Copenhagen and obtained a degree in reproductive physiology.[2] In 1984, at the British Agricultural Research Council's Unit on Reproductive Physiology and Biochemistry, Willadsen successfully used nuclear transfer to clone a sheep from embryonic cells.[3][4] He has been called an Iconoclastic Genius of Cloning. In a June 3rd 1997 article of the New York Times. [5] He has worked in the field of chimeras: animals half goat and half sheep, half sheep and half cow, etc.[6] While at Cambridge, England, he was the first to clone a mammal from differentiated cells, from sheep embryos, in 1984.
[edit] References
- http://library.thinkquest.org/24355/data/details/1984.html
- http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=RDv17n2_PA.pdf
- http://www.ahc.umn.edu/img/assets/25857/human_cloning.pdf
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E5DD153DF930A35755C0A961958260&scp=1&sq=steen+willadsen&st=nyt
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