Rudolf Jaenisch

Rudolf Jaenisch (born on April 22, 1942) is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is a pioneer of transgenic science, in which an animal’s genetic makeup is altered. Jaenisch has focused on creating genetically modified mice to study cancer, epigenetic reprogramming and neurological diseases. Provided by Wikipedia