John Gurdon

John Bertrand Gurdon
Born	(1933-10-02) 2 October 1933 (age 91)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford
Known for	Nuclear transfer, cloning
Awards	Wolf Prize in Medicine (1989) Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award (2009) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	Developmental biology
Institutions	University of Oxford University of Cambridge California Institute of Technology
Thesis	Studies on nucleocytoplasmic relationships during differentiation in vertebrates (1961)
Doctoral advisor	Michael Fischberg[1]
Website	www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/gurdon.html www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/gurdon.htm

Sir John Bertrand Gurdon (JBG) FRS (born 2 October 1933) is a British developmental biologist. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation,^[2][3][4] and cloning.^[1][5][6][7]

Nuclear transplantation means taking the nucleus out of cells in tissue culture and putting them into other cells whose nucleus has been removed. It is called somatic cell nuclear transfer. In this way, specialised cells can be "reprogrammed" to become like stem cells.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Williams R. 2008. Sir John Gurdon: Godfather of cloning. The Journal of Cell Biology 181 (2): 178–179. [1]
2. ↑ Gurdon J. & Byrne J.A. 2003. The first half-century of nuclear transplantation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (14): 8048. [2] Archived 2016-05-18 at the Wayback Machine
3. ↑ Gurdon J.B. 2006. From nuclear transfer to nuclear reprogramming: the reversal of cell differentiation. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 22: 1–22. [3] Archived 2020-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
4. ↑ Gurdon J.B. & Melton D.A. 2008. Nuclear reprogramming in cells. Science 322 (5909): 1811–1815. [4]
5. ↑ Kain K. 2009. The birth of cloning: An interview with John Gurdon. Disease Models and Mechanisms 2 (1–2): 9–10. [5]
6. ↑ Gurdon J. 2003. John Gurdon. Current biology : CB 13 (19): R759–R760. [6]
7. ↑ Gurdon J. 2000. Not a total waste of time: an interview with John Gurdon. Interview by James C Smith. The International journal of developmental biology 44 (1): 93–99.[7]