Gail R. Martin
American biologist (born 1944) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gail Roberta Martin (née Zuckman, born 1944) is an American biologist. She is professor emerita in the Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco. She is known for her pioneering work on the isolation of pluripotent stem cells from normal embryos, for which she coined the term 'embryonic stem cells'.[1] She is widely recognized for her work on the function of fibroblast growth factors and their negative regulators in vertebrate organogenesis. She and her colleagues made contributions to gene targeting technology.
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Born | Gail Roberta Zuckman 1944 (age 79–80) Bronx, New York, U.S. |
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Spouse | G. Steven Martin (m. 1969) |
Children | 1 son |
Awards | Member, US National Academy of Sciences; Foreign Member, Royal Society; Pearl Meister Greengard Prize; E.G. Conklin Medal |
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Fields | Developmental Biology |
Institutions | University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) |
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