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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Rudolf Jaenisch

Title:

Professor of Biology

Affiliation:

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

9 Cambridge Center

Cambridge,Massachusetts 02142 USA

Gender:

Male

Award Discipline:

Biological Sciences

Award Year:

2010

Citation:

"For improving our understanding of epigenetic regulation of gene expression: the biological mechanisms that affect how genetic information is variably expressed. His work has led to major advances in our understanding of mammalian cloning and embryonic stem cells."

Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on Friday, October 21, 2011.

 

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