Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
Faculty Achievement Recognition
The 2007 Honorees
Edward W. Scott
Professor and Program Director
Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology and The McKnight Brain Institute
College of Medicine
2000
Degrees earned:
Ph.D., University of Florida, 1992
B.A., University of Chicago, 1985
Professor Edward Scott, a leader in the study of adult stem cells, is director of the UF Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. He serves as overall director of the university-wide study of “Stem Cells, Vasculogenesis and Cancer.” Scott currently holds three NIH grants (two from the Heart Lung & Blood Institute and one from the Cancer Institute) to study the role of gene regulation during white blood cell development and the biology of hematopoietic progenitor cells. Using embryonic stem cells, Scott has generated mice that were lacking both lymphoid and myeloid cells, demonstrating that the “knocked out” gene was essential for the generation of these cell types. Additionally, Scott has proved that an adult mouse stem cell can exhibit functional plasticity in a transplant setting by using an adult hematopoietic stem cell to repair an ischemic injury in the retina.
