(Cambridge, UK) — Professor Ben Simons, College Supervisor in Physics at St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge, has been awarded the Franklin Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics. Professor Simons has used insights from statistical mechanics to describe the fate of stem cells during their self-renewal process. His studies showed various strategies of stem cell self-renewal that allow the stem cell to divide with precisely one half of their ‘offspring’ remaining in the stem cell compartment while the other half differentiates into a new cell type.
Cambridge Professor Wins Franklin Prize for Stem Cell Research
