Stem cell pioneer James "Jamie" Thomson has accepted an Adjunct Professor appointment in MCDB and will operate a satellite laboratory in UCSB's California NanoSystems Institute, where he will carry out collaborative projects with UCSB biologists and engineers. Professor Thomson's main laboratory will remain at the University of Wisconsin, where he is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Anatomy in the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, and is the holder of the Jim Kress Endowed Chair. He has appointments at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, the Genome Center of Wisconsin, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and he serves as the scientific director of the WiCell Research Institute. Professor Thomson was the first to isolate human embryonic stem cells in 1998 and continues to be a leader in the field of stem cell research. "I am attracted by UCSB's strengths in materials science, instrumentation, and by the availability of marine model organisms for comparative studies." said Thomson. For more information on Prof. Thomson's research, please visit the Thomson laboratory at the University of Wisconsin.
Contact Information
Phone: (608) 263-3585
Email: thomson@primate.wisc.edu
Website: Jamie Thomson Faculty Website