Ian Wilmut

Professor
Sir Ian Wilmut
OBE FRS FMedSci FRSE
Born(1944-07-07)7 July 1944
Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire, England
Died10 September 2023(2023-09-10) (aged 79)
Alma mater
Known forDolly the sheep
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsEmbryologist
Institutions
ThesisThe preservation of boar semen (1971)
Doctoral advisorChristopher Polge
Websitecrm.ed.ac.uk/research/group/redirecting-cell-fate

Sir Ian Wilmut (7 July 1944 – 10 September 2023) was a British embryologist and the chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine[4] at the University of Edinburgh.[5] He is best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly.[6][7]

Wilmut was appointed OBE in 1999 for services to embryo development[8] and knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours.[9] He, Keith Campbell and Shinya Yamanaka jointly received the 2008 Shaw Prize for Medicine and Life Sciences for their work on cell differentiation in mammals.[3]

  1. ^ "Ian Wilmut Ernst: Schering Prize 2002". Schering Stiftung. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Paul Ehrlich Foundation: Prize Winners: 2005 Wilmut". Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  3. ^ a b "The 2008 Prize in Life Science & Medicine". Shaw Prize Foundation. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine". Archived from the original on 22 March 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  5. ^ "Redirecting Cell Fate, Group leader: Ian Wilmut FRS, FRSE". Archived from the original on 23 April 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
  6. ^ Campbell, K. H. S.; McWhir, J.; Ritchie, W. A.; Wilmut, I. (1996). "Sheep cloned by nuclear transfer from a cultured cell line". Nature. 380 (6569): 64–66. Bibcode:1996Natur.380...64C. doi:10.1038/380064a0. PMID 8598906. S2CID 3529638.
  7. ^ Schnieke, A. E.; Kind, A. J.; Ritchie, W. A.; Mycock, K.; Scott, A. R.; Ritchie, M.; Wilmut, I.; Colman, A.; Campbell, K. H. (1997). "Human Factor IX Transgenic Sheep Produced by Transfer of Nuclei from Transfected Fetal Fibroblasts". Science. 278 (5346): 2130–2133. Bibcode:1997Sci...278.2130S. doi:10.1126/science.278.5346.2130. PMID 9405350. S2CID 36257561.
  8. ^ "Times Higher Education: Queen's Birthday Honours". Times Higher Education. 18 June 1999. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
  9. ^ "Dolly creator heads Scots honours". BBC News. 29 December 2007. Retrieved 16 April 2009.