James Thomson, PhD, VMD
Email:jthomson@morgridgeinstitute.org
Affiliations: Professor
Department of: Cell & Regenerative Biology (UW); Director of Regenerative Biology (Morgridge Institute for Research); and Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology (UCSB)
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Education
BS 1981 University of Illinois-Champaign, Champaign, IL
VMD 1985 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
PhD 1988 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1st Postdoctoral position: Oregon National Primate Center, Portland, OR
Research Focus
My research focuses on understanding how a cell can maintain or change identity, how a cell chooses between self-renewal and the initial decision to differentiate, and how a differentiated cell with limited developmental potential can be reprogrammed to a pluripotent cell.
Program Activities
- Joined ERP Program: 2000
Research Funding
- PI NIH 5 P01GM081629-03 08/01/08 - 07/31/13 Determinants of Self-Renewal, Differentiation, and Reprogramming of HESCS
- PI NIH 3 P01GM081629-02S1 09/30/09 - 08/31/11 Determinants of Self-Renewal, Differentiation, and Reprogramming of HESCS
- PI NIH 5 P01GM081629-03 08/01/10 -07/31/11 Self-Renewal and Differentiation: Molecular Events that Commit ES Cells to Exit T
- PI NIH 5 U01HL099773-02 09/30/09 - 04/30/16 Midwest Progenitor Cell Consortiumm
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