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Molecular Biology

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164
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57
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4

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2015 - Canada Gairdner Wightman Award
  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - Edwin Grant Conklin Medal, Society for Developmental Biology
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2000 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1999 - Robert L. Noble Prize, Canadian Cancer Society
  • 1993 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Janet Rossant is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research work spans subfields such as molecular biology, physiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, surgery, and cell biology.

The scientist's recent publications cover topics critical to developmental biology, stem cell research, and human embryonic development. Notable papers include:

  • ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation: The 2021 update, 2021, published in Stem Cell Reports
  • Evaluating totipotency using criteria of increasing stringency, 2021, published in Nature Cell Biology
  • Early human embryonic development: Blastocyst formation to gastrulation, 2022, published in Developmental Cell
  • Tryptophan-metabolizing gut microbes regulate adult neurogenesis via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, 2021, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Human embryo research, stem cell-derived embryo models and in vitro gametogenesis: Considerations leading to the revised ISSCR guidelines, 2021, published in Stem Cell Reports

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Bin Gu
  • Jianping Fu
  • Nicolas Rivron
  • Brian Bradshaw
  • Eszter Pósfai

Publication venues where Janet Rossant often appears are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Stem Cell Reports
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • Cell Stem Cell
  • Cell

The main topics of study in their research include:

  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
  • Renal and related cancers
  • Reproductive Biology and Fertility
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ

Janet Rossant's work has been recognized with several awards, such as:

  • Canada Gairdner Wightman Award, 2015
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008
  • Edwin Grant Conklin Medal, Society for Developmental Biology, 2007
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2000
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2000
  • Robert L. Noble Prize, Canadian Cancer Society, 1999
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1993

Best Publications

  • Failure of blood-island formation and vasculogenesis in Flk-1-deficient mice.

    Fouad Shalaby;Janet Rossant;Janet Rossant;Terry P. Yamaguchi;Terry P. Yamaguchi;Marina Gertsenstein

  • Role of the Flt-1 receptor tyrosine kinase in regulating the assembly of vascular endothelium

    Guo-Hua Fong;Janet Rossant;Janet Rossant;Marina Gertsenstein;Martin L. Breitman;Martin L. Breitman

  • Derivation of completely cell culture-derived mice from early-passage embryonic stem cells

    Andras Nagy;Janet Rossant;Reka Nagy;Wanda Abramow-Newerly

  • Dll4 signalling through Notch1 regulates formation of tip cells during angiogenesis

    Mats Hellström;Li Kun Phng;Jennifer J. Hofmann;Elisabet Wallgard

  • Promotion of Trophoblast Stem Cell Proliferation by FGF4

    Satoshi Tanaka;Tilo Kunath;Anna Katerina Hadjantonakis;Andras Nagy

  • Placental development: Lessons from mouse mutants

    Janet Rossant;James C. Cross

  • Cardiac malformation in neonatal mice lacking connexin43

    A. G. Reaume;P. A. De Sousa;P. A. De Sousa;S. Kulkarni;B. L. Langille

  • Interaction between Oct3/4 and Cdx2 Determines Trophectoderm Differentiation

    Hitoshi Niwa;Yayoi Toyooka;Daisuke Shimosato;Dan Strumpf

  • Characterization of human embryonic stem cell lines by the International Stem Cell Initiative

    Oluseun Adewumi;Behrouz Aflatoonian;Lars Ahrlund-Richter;Michal Amit

  • Cdx2 is required for correct cell fate specification and differentiation of trophectoderm in the mouse blastocyst

    Dan Strumpf;Chai An Mao;Yojiro Yamanaka;Amy Ralston

  • Endothelial cells and VEGF in vascular development

    Leigh Coultas;Kallayanee Chawengsaksophak;Janet Rossant

  • HNF-3β is essential for node and notochord formation in mouse development

    Siew-Lan Ang;Siew-Lan Ang;Janet Rossant;Janet Rossant

  • Control of Effector CD8+ T Cell Function by the Transcription Factor Eomesodermin

    Erika L. Pearce;Alan C. Mullen;Gislâine A. Martins;Connie M. Krawczyk

  • A requirement for Flk1 in primitive and definitive hematopoiesis and vasculogenesis.

    Fouad Shalaby;Jacqueline Ho;William L. Stanford;Klaus Dieter Fischer

  • Notch1 is required for the coordinate segmentation of somites

    Ronald A. Conlon;Andrew G. Reaume;Janet Rossant

  • Retinoid Signaling Determines Germ Cell Fate in Mice

    Josephine Bowles;Deon Knight;Christopher Smith;Dagmar Wilhelm

  • The Hippo signaling pathway components Lats and Yap pattern Tead4 activity to distinguish mouse trophectoderm from inner cell mass.

    Noriyuki Nishioka;Ken ichi Inoue;Kenjiro Adachi;Hiroshi Kiyonari

  • Distinct neural stem cells proliferate in response to EGF and FGF in the developing mouse telencephalon.

    Vincent Tropepe;Maria Sibilia;Brian G. Ciruna;Brian G. Ciruna;Janet Rossant;Janet Rossant

  • Early Lineage Segregation between Epiblast and Primitive Endoderm in Mouse Blastocysts through the Grb2-MAPK Pathway

    Claire Chazaud;Yojiro Yamanaka;Tony Pawson;Janet Rossant

  • Liver organogenesis promoted by endothelial cells prior to vascular function.

    Kunio Matsumoto;Kunio Matsumoto;Hideyuki Yoshitomi;Janet Rossant;Janet Rossant;Kenneth S. Zaret

Frequent Co-Authors

Andras Nagy
Andras Nagy Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Tak W. Mak
Tak W. Mak Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
John C. Roder
John C. Roder University of Toronto
Josef M. Penninger
Josef M. Penninger University of British Columbia
William L. Stanford
William L. Stanford Ottawa Hospital
Alan Bernstein
Alan Bernstein Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Martin L. Breitman
Martin L. Breitman University of Toronto
Jane E. Aubin
Jane E. Aubin University of Toronto
Benoit G. Bruneau
Benoit G. Bruneau Gladstone Institutes
Colin McKerlie
Colin McKerlie Hospital for Sick Children

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