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Gail Roberta Martin

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American biologist

United StatesScientistsLived 1944 to 2026 · aged 81
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Gail Roberta Martin was an American developmental biologist. She is known for her pioneering work on the isolation of pluripotent stem cells from normal embryos, for which she coined the term 'embryonic stem cells'.

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2015Foreign Member of the Royal Society
2011FASEB Excellence in Science Award
2007Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
2002Edwin Grant Conklin Medal
1991Guggenheim Fellowship

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Gail Roberta Martin was an American developmental biologist. She is known for her pioneering work on the isolation of pluripotent stem cells from normal embryos, for which she coined the term 'embryonic stem cells'. She is widely recognized for her work on the function of fibroblast growth factors and their negative regulators in vertebrate organogenesis. She and her colleagues made contributions to gene targeting technology.

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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1944 to 2026 · aged 81
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