Jose Cibelli
Professor of Animal Science and of Physiology
Pioneer on Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer - cloning in mammals and zebrafish
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Dr. Jose Cibelli is internationally recognized as one of the pioneers in the area of cellular reprogramming using oocyte-driven protocols. Dr. Cibelli together with his colleagues, were responsible for the generation of the world's first transgenic cloned calves, the first stem cells by nuclear transfer in bovine, the first embryonic stem cells by parthenogenesis in primates and the generation of the first line of iPSCs using oocyte factors alone. His work has been published un numerous scientific ... journals including Science, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Medicine, Nature Methods, PNAS and JAMA. He has testified about his work in public forums sponsored by the US Food and Drug administration, the USA National Academy of Sciences, Canadian House of Commons, the USA Department of Agriculture, the United Nations Commission for Human Rights and the British Royal Society.
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University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Ph.D., Reproductive Biology
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First cow embryonic stem cells could lead to healthier, more productive livestock
Science Mag | 2018-02-05
'“I thought I would never see this happen in my lifetime,” says Jose Cibelli, a developmental biologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing, who was part of a team that attempted to harvest bovine ES cells in the late 1990s. In those efforts and many others since, stem cells from cow embryos would develop into other cell types when grown in a lab dish, meaning that they would quickly lose their “stemmy-ness,” or pluripotency.'
