Keith Campbell (biologist)
Keith Henry Stockman Campbell (23 May 1954 – 5 October 2012) was a British biologist who was a member of the team at Roslin Institute that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells. He was Professor of Animal Development at the University of Nottingham. In 2008, he received the Shaw Prize for Medicine and Life Sciences jointly with Ian Wilmut and Shinya Yamanaka for "their works on the cell differentiation in mammals".
Keith Campbell | |
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| Born | Keith Henry Stockman Campbell 23 May 1954 Birmingham, England |
| Died | 5 October 2012 (aged 58) |
| Alma mater | Queen Elizabeth College,BSc (now part of King's College London) University of Sussex, PhD |
| Known for | Dolly (sheep) (1996) |
| Awards | Shaw Prize (2008) IETS Pioneer Award (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of London University of Sussex Roslin Institute University of Nottingham |
| Thesis | Aspects of cell cycle regulation in yeast and Xenopus (1988) |
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