Esmail D. Zanjani is a professor and medical researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno

University of Nevada, Reno

The University of Nevada, Reno , is a teaching and research university established in 1874 and located in Reno, Nevada, USA...

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His research involves growing human cells within sheep embryos. In March 2007, it was announced that Zanjani had created a human-sheep chimera

Chimera (genetics)

A chimera or chimaera is a single organism that is composed of two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated from different zygotes involved in sexual reproduction. If the different cells have emerged from the same zygote, the organism is called a mosaic...

. Zanjani has stated that his work involves sheep because of the blood-forming systems of sheep and humans are similar.

He has served as president of the International Society for Experimental Hematology

International Society for Experimental Hematology

The Society for Hematology and Stem Cells is a learned society which deals with hematology, the study of the blood system and its diseases, including those caused by exposure to nuclear radiation. It was founded in 1971, and held its first official meeting in Milwaukee in 1972...

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