UW-Madison stem cell pioneer Jamie Thomson received the prestigious Massry Prize for 2008.
The award recognizes Thomson, who is director of regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research and a professor at UW-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health, for his groundbreaking discovery of human embryonic stem ES cells a decade ago, and his subsequent work in developing induced pluripotent stem iPS cells.
Eight previous winners of the Massry Prize have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize.