Roel Nusse

Roeland "Roel" Nusse (* 9 June 1950 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch-American molecular biologist and university lecturer at Stanford University. He was instrumental in the discovery of the Wnt signaling path.

Nusse studied biology at the University of Amsterdam, where he was also promoted with a dissertation on the mouse mammary tumor virus. As a postdoctoral student, he discovered the Wnt1 gene at Harvard Varmus in 1982 at the University of California in San Francisco. He then investigated the Wnt signaling pathway at the Dutch Cancer Research Institute. From 1990 he was at the laboratory of development biology in Stanford. There he explores, among other things, the role of Wnt in stem cell development and the regeneration of tissue. He is also a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

In 2000 he received the Peter Debye Prize from the University of Maastricht. He is a correspondent member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (1997), a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001), and the European Molecular Biology Organization (1988)

For 2017, he received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext Standard data (person): LCCN: n2012042496 VIAF: 251355335 | Wikipedia People Search | No GND person record. Last check: December 5, 2016. GND name record: 1085477894 (AKS)

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