Awards & Winners

Ian Wilmut

Date of Birth 07-July-1944
Place of Birth Hampton Lucy
(United Kingdom, Stratford-on-Avon District)
Nationality England
Profession Scientist, Professor
Sir Ian Wilmut, OBE FRS FMedSci FRSE is an English embryologist and Chair of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. 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. He was granted an OBE in 1999 for services to embryo development. In December 2007 it was announced that he would be knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours.

Awards by Ian Wilmut

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2005


Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
(For his experiments of cloning mammalians.)