George Yancopoulos

Who is George Yancopoulos?

George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D. is an American biomedical scientist who serves as chief scientific officer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.. His work has included study of how nerves regenerate and how muscles connect to nerves. He also developed "the most valuable mouse ever made," bred to have immune systems that respond just as a human's would, so that it can be used for testing how the human body might react to various pharmaceuticals and other substances.

He was elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. According to a study by the Institute for Scientific Information, he was the eleventh most highly cited scientist in the world during the 1990s, and the only scientist from the biotechnology industry on the list.