Muriel Davisson

Who is Muriel Davisson?

Muriel Davisson - contemporary American neuroscientist who developed the Down syndrome mouse model Ts65Dn known as "Davisson's mice".

In 1959 she graduated from Pemetic High School in Southwest Harbor, Maine. She holds Ph. D. from Penn State University. She was director of Genetic Resource Science at Jackson Laboratory. Her work concentrates on developing mouse models of human genetic disorders including Down syndrome. She is now semiretired from Jackson Laboratory. Her mice was used in number of Down syndrome studies leading to promising drug therapies. In 2002 the National Down Syndrome Society named her "Researcher of the Year."