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| Teruhiko Wakayama received his
B. Sc. and M. Sc. from Ibaraki University, and was awarded
a Ph. D. in reproductive biology from the University of
Tokyo, Department of Veterinary Anatomy in 1996, where
he studied fertilization in the Japanese field vole. His
finding that the first and second polar bodies were sufficient
substitutes for the oocyte nucleus led to a technique
enabling the generation of four embryos from a single
oocyte. He received a postdoctoral fellowship from the
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science in 1996
and spent the next two years at the Yanagimachi lab in
the University of Hawaii Medical School, where he succeeded
in producing the world's first cloned mouse in 1998. He
was appointed to an assistant professorship at the University
of Hawaii the same year, before moving to Rockefeller
University as a research assistant professor in 1999,
where he developed a technique for deriving ES cells from
somatic cells by nuclear transfer. He spent a year as
a researcher at Advanced Cell Technology before returning
to Japan to take his current position at the RIKEN CDB. |
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