- Catherine Verfaillie
Catherine Verfaillie (born
1957 ) is a Belgian molecular biologist and professor at theKatholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven ,Belgium ).Education
Born in
Ypres , she obtained an M.D.from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in1982 , after which she specialized in internal medicine and became interested inhematology andleukemia .Career
In
1987 she departed for the U.S. as a research-fellow to the University of Minnesota. She worked in the lab of Dr. Phillip McGlave in hematopoiesis and stromal control of hematopoietic stem cells, in 1991 becoming a professor in the Department of Medicine, becoming a full professor in 1997. [Eckfeldt CE, Mendenhall EM, Verfaillie CM., The Molecular Repertoire of the "Almighty Stem Cell, Nature Rev Mol Cell Biol, 6, 726-737 (2005);]Catherine Verfaillie was Director of the Stem Cell Institute at the
University of Minnesota (U.S.) from1998 until2006 . She discovered multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPC), a type of adultstem cell [Jiang Y, Jahagirdar BN, Reinhardt RL, Schwartz RE, Keene CD, Ortiz-Gonzalez XR, Reyes M, Lenvik T, Lund T, Blackstad M, Du J, Aldrich S, Lisberg A, Low WC, Largaespada DA, Verfaillie CM., Pluripotency of mesenchymal stem cells derived from adult marrow, Nature, 2002 Jul 4;418(6893):41-9] [Yuehua Jiang, Balkrishna N. Jahagirdar, R. Lee Reinhardt, Robert E. Schwartz, C. Dirk Keene, Xilma R. Ortiz-Gonzalez, Morayma Reyes, Todd Lenvik, Troy Lund, Mark Blackstad, Jingbo Du, Sara Aldrich, Aaron Lisberg, Walter C. Low, David A. Largaespada & Catherine M. Verfaillie, Pluripotency of mesenchymal stem cells derived from adult marrow, Nature, 2002, June 14; 447, 880-881] .She is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation of the University of Minnesota Medical School. She holds the Anderson Chair in Stem Cell Biology and the McKnight's Presidential Chair in Stem Cell Biology.
She now leads the "Stamcel Instituut te Leuven" (SCIL) (E: Stem Cell Institute Leuven) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven, Belgium. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the
Itinera Institute think-tank .Honors
*
José Carreras -prize
* Damasheck-prize
*2005 ,Vlerick Award References
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* [http://www.stemcell.umn.edu/stemcell/faculty/Verfaillie/home.html Catherine Verfaillie] (UMN)
* [http://www.kuleuven.be/cv/u0048658e.htm Catherine Verfaillie] (KUL)
* [http://www.kuleuven.be/scil/ Stem Cell Institute Leuven] (SCIL, KUL)
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