Dr. Janet Rossant
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Toronto
Election Year
1993
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Keywords
Mammalian genetics, developmental biology, stem cell biology
Dr. Janet Rossant merits recognition for her sustained and important contributions to the cellular and molecular mechanisms of mammalian embryological development. She pioneered the use of chimaeric mice to study lineage development in the early mouse embryo and was amongst the first to apply gene targetting approaches to create mice carrying mutations in important regulatory genes. She and her colleagues have also pioneered the development of novel approaches to identify and mutate novel genes critical to embryological development.