Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                

About: Sean J. Morrison

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Sean J. Morrison is a Canadian-American stem cell biologist and cancer researcher. Morrison is the director of Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, a nonprofit research institute established in 2011 as a joint venture between Children’s Health System of Texas and UT Southwestern Medical Center. The CRI was established in 2011 by Morrison with the mission to perform transformative biomedical research at the interface of stem cell biology, cancer, and metabolism to better understand the biological basis of disease. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and member of the National Academy of Medicine. From 2015 to 2016 Morrison served as the president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Sean J. Morrison is a Canadian-American stem cell biologist and cancer researcher. Morrison is the director of Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, a nonprofit research institute established in 2011 as a joint venture between Children’s Health System of Texas and UT Southwestern Medical Center. The CRI was established in 2011 by Morrison with the mission to perform transformative biomedical research at the interface of stem cell biology, cancer, and metabolism to better understand the biological basis of disease. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and member of the National Academy of Medicine. From 2015 to 2016 Morrison served as the president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. Morrison’s research group studies the mechanisms that regulate stem cell function in adult tissues and the ways in which cancer cells hijack those mechanisms to enable tumor formation. (en)
dbo:almaMater
dbo:award
dbo:institution
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 14654875 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 18190 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1114615071 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:almaMater
  • California Institute of Technology (en)
  • Dalhousie University (en)
  • Stanford University (en)
  • (en)
dbp:awards
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, National Academy of Medicine (en)
dbp:fields
  • Stem Cells, Cancer Biology (en)
dbp:knownFor
  • Stem Cell Research (en)
dbp:website
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:workplaces
  • University of Michigan (en)
  • (en)
  • UT Southwestern (en)
  • Children’s Research Institute (en)
dct:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Sean J. Morrison is a Canadian-American stem cell biologist and cancer researcher. Morrison is the director of Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, a nonprofit research institute established in 2011 as a joint venture between Children’s Health System of Texas and UT Southwestern Medical Center. The CRI was established in 2011 by Morrison with the mission to perform transformative biomedical research at the interface of stem cell biology, cancer, and metabolism to better understand the biological basis of disease. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and member of the National Academy of Medicine. From 2015 to 2016 Morrison served as the president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Sean J. Morrison (en)
rdfs:seeAlso
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:homepage
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License