Rudolf Jaenisch (* 1942 in Wolfelsgrund) is a German molecular biologist and Genetiker, who made themselves earned particularly around the development of the mouse model as model the study of human illnesses.

Biografie

Rudolf Jaenisch studied 1967 at the university in Munich and locked this with its graduation. Afterwards it worked as a post office graduate student on the institute for Max-Planck for biochemistry in Munich and went afterwards to the Princeton University. Here it remained until 1972, afterwards it worked as Assistenzprofessor on the Salk of institutes in La Jolla in California until 1977. In the year it returned to Germany and led to 1984 the department for Tumorvirologie of the Heinrich Pette institute for experimental Virologie and Immunologie at the university in Hamburg. 1984 it followed a call to the Whitehead of institutes for Biomedical Research and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (WITH).

Work

Rudolf Jaenisch concerns itself particularly with the medical research at the mouse model developed by it. Hereunder applies it as a pioneer within the range of the Transgeneti research. Its mouse model made possible it to investigate the causes a set of diseases at the model and in addition in the basic research the role of modifications of the DNA to study the Imprinting and inactivating of the X-Chromosoms.

Honours and memberships

Rudolf Jaenisch is a selected member of the American Academy OF kind and Sciences, the American Academy OF Microbiology as well as the American Academy for the Advancement OF Science. In the year 1996 it received the Boehringer Mannheim Molecular Bioanalytics Prize, 2001 to the Genetics Prize Peter Gruber Foundation and 2002 the Robert cook price.

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• Rudolf Jaenisch to ALSO
• Rudolf Jaenisch at the Whitehead of institutes

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