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EDUCATION Thomson graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.S. in Biophysics at the University Of Illinois in 1981 . He then entered the Veterinary Medical Scientist Training Program at the University Of Pennsylvania , receiving his doctorate in veterinary medicine in 1985, and his doctorate in Molecular Biology in 1988 . His doctoral thesis, conducted under the supervision of Davor Solter at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, PA , involved understanding genetic imprinting in early Mammal ian development. Dr. Thomson joined the University Of Wisconsin-Madison after spending two years as a post-doctoral research fellow in the Primate In Vitro Fertilization and Experimental Embryology Laboratory at the Oregon National Primate Research Center . CURRENT EMPLOYMENT In addition to being a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he is also a member of the Genome Center of Wisconsin. THOMSON'S RESEARCH Since joining the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, he has conducted pioneering work in the isolation and culture of non-human Primate and Human embryonic stem cells, undifferentiated cells that have the ability to become any of the Cell s that make up the Tissue s of the Body . Dr. Thomson directed the group that reported the first isolation of embryonic stem cell lines from a non-human primate in 1995, work that led his group to the first successful isolation of human embryonic stem cell lines in 1998. On November 6, 1998, '''', November 6, 1998 THOMSON'S PATENTS Three of Thomson's patents (5,843,780, 6,200,806, and 7,029,913) are being challenged by the '', 2007-04-03. However, it is highly likely that the patent holder, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) will hold on to its stem cell patent rights WARF is likely to hold on to stem cell patent rights , 2007-04-12.
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