What did Anne McLaren discover?

What did Anne McLaren discover?

McLaren was the first researcher to grow mouse embryos outside of the womb. She experimented by culturing mouse eggs and successfully developing them into embryos, leading to advancements with in vitro fertilization.

What did Anne McLaren contribute?

Her work helped lead to human in vitro fertilisation (IVF), and she received many honours for her contributions to science, including election as fellow of the Royal Society.

Where did Anne McLaren work?

After retiring from the Medical Research Council in 1992, she became principal research associate at what was to become the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, a position she still held at the time of her death in a car accident in 2007. Tributes to Anne McLaren as received by the Gurdon Institute.

When was Anne McLaren born?

Anne McLaren

Where did Anne McLaren go to school?

McLaren was born in London and studied zoology at the University of Oxford, before conducting post-graduate research under two of the most prominent biologists of the time: J. B. S. Haldane and Peter Medawar.

What awards did Anne McLaren win?

Anne received numerous prizes and awards, including the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1990 and the Japan Prize in 2002, in addition to this year’s March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology (see the figure). She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1993.