Sherman Morton Weissman MD
Sterling Professor of Genetics
Departments & Organizations
NHLBI ProteomicsBiological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development: Genetics and Genomics | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
Stem Cell Center, Yale: Stem Cell Genetics
Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration
Program in Neurodevelopment and Regeneration
Skin Diseases Research Center, Yale
Genetics
Gene Regulation and Functional Genomics
Research Interests
Globin and Histocompatibility Gene Structure and Function; Genome wide mapping of gene activity and chromosome structure in man; Transcription Factors; Lymphocyte and myeloid Transcription Networks; Stem Cells; Cell Senescence; Methods for Molecular Genetics
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Education
- M.D., Harvard University , 1955
Selected Publication
- Ye, Z.J., Kluger, Y., Lian, Z., and Weissman, S.M. (2005). Two types of precursor cells in a multipotential hematopoietic cell line. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 102:18461-18466.
Articles
Summer 2003
Chromosomal Instability and Aging: Basic Science and Clinical Implications
edited by Fuki M. Hisama, M.D., HS ’92, assistant professor of neurology, Sherman M. Weissman, M.D., Sterling Professor...
Winter 2002
Funding the hunt for proteins
Yale scientists have received a $15 million, five-year grant that will fund a search for key regulatory proteins in the...
Winter 2013
Junk no more
R.I.P., junk DNA: not the DNA as such, but the moniker that has described it in a misleading fashion for years....
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
New Haven’s biotech boom
The medical school’s efforts to bring its intellectual property to market have given the New Haven economy a boost.
Fall 2000 | Winter 2001
After the genome, “a new future for medicine”
The year 2000 brought the working-draft version of the human genome and new hopes for medicine and the understanding of...
Summer 2003
Boost for protein, gene studies
The Center for Genomics and Proteomics, founded last year with a $200 million investment from the university, awarded...
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