约翰·伯特兰·格登爵士,1933年10月2日出生,是一位英国发育生物学家。他主要以在细胞核移植与克隆方面的先驱性研究而知名。2012年荣获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。
约翰·伯特兰·格登爵士(Sir John Bertrand Gurdon)1933年10月2日出生于英国,中学毕业于伊顿公学。在牛津大学基督学院开始大学生涯,从最初的经典学到最后换专业至动物学。在牛津大学完成博士课程后,到美国加州理工学院进行博士后工作。
1971-1983年:剑桥大学MRC分子生物学实验室。
1983年至今:剑桥大学动物学系
Professor Sir John Gurdon Kt DPhil DSc FRS
Distinguished Group Leader, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2012, Member of the University Department of Zoology
Educated at Eton College, where he did Classics, having been advised
that he was unsuited for science, and Christ Church, Oxford (Zoology).
PhD with Michael Fischberg, on nuclear transplantation in Xenopus.
Obtained the first clone of genetically identical adult animals.
Demonstrated genetic totipotency of somatic cell nuclei by obtaining
sexually mature frogs from the nuclei of intestinal epithelium.
Did postdoctoral work at Cal-Tech, on bacteriophage genetics. Moved
to MRC Molecular Biology Laboratory in Cambridge (Chairman Max Perutz),
subsequently becoming Head of Cell Biology Division. In 1983, accepted
John Humphrey Plummer Professorship of Cell Biology in University of
Cambridge, in Zoology Department. Initiated, with Prof R Laskey, Cancer
Research Campaign unit of Molecular Embryology in Zoology Department
Cambridge.