John Eppig
John J. Eppig is professor emeritus at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. He studies the development and function of the oocyte-granulosa cell complex in mammals. He is the first researcher to achieve the first complete development of mammalian oocytes in vitro. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Eppig was born in 1943. His father was a pediatrician and his mother was a homemaker with a master's degree in English. [2] He received his B.S. in biology from Villanova University, and a Ph.D. in endocrinology from the Catholic University of America. He did research for his doctorate at the Molecular Anatomy Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and did a postdoctoral fellowship at University of Tennessee at Oak Ridge in developmental biology.
Career[edit]
He was an assistant professor.at Brooklyn College in New York for three years.[3] In 1975 he became an assistant professor at the Jackson Laboratory until he retired in 2013.[3]
Honors[edit]
In 2011 Eppig was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "John Eppig, Ph.D". The Jackson Laboratory. Retrieved 2020-11-26.
- ^ Griswold, A. (2013-09-05). "Profile of John J. Eppig". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (39): 15506–15508. Bibcode:2013PNAS..11015506G. doi:10.1073/pnas.1315016110. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3785747. PMID 24009340.
- ^ a b Kumar, T. Rajendra; Makowski, Patricia M.; Edgar, L. (2 August 2019). "An Interview with Dr. John Eppig". Oxford Academic: Biology of Reproduction. Retrieved 26 November 2020.