Jose Cibelli
Jose B. Cibelli, D. V.M.,
Ph.D., is Vice President of Research at Advanced Cell Technology Inc., in
Worcester, MA. He received his D.V.M. in Veterinary Medicine at the
University of La Plata, Argentina in 1989, and a Ph.D. from the University of
Massachusetts in Amherst in 1998. From 1989 to 1993, he was a Veterinarian at
the Cooperative of Artificial Insemination of Venado Tureto, Argentina, and has
several years of research experience at the Department of Veterinary and Animal
Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he did his doctoral
dissertation (in the laboratory of James Robl) on the production of transgenic
cattle.
Dr. Cibelli is one of the
pioneers in the area of cloning with transgenic somatic cells in bovine for the
production of animals and embryonic stem cell-like cells. His work was focused
in the production of transgenic cattle. In January 1998, Dr. Cibelli's efforts
lead to the announced the generation of the world's first transgenic calves by
cloning. This was followed by publications in Science, Nature Biotechnology and
Nature Medicine.
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