John Gurdon professor

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Gurdon made significant discoveries in epigenetics here and eventually won the Nobel Prize.

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John Gurdon

Sir John Bertrand Gurdon, FRS, FMedSci (born 2 October 1933), is an English developmental biologist. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation^[3]^[4] and cloning.^[1]^[5]^[6]^[7] He was awarded the Lasker Award in 2009. In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells.^[8]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Gurdon
Page 19 - Carey, N. 2013, The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance, Icon Books, 320p.

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