Ian Wilmut cause of death: What happened to Ian Wilmut?

British embryologist Ian Wilmut passed away on September 10, 2023, after suffering from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was aged 79.

Who Was Ian Wilmut?

Ian Wilmut was an embryologist and head of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

Wilmut is most famous for leading the research group that first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, in 1996.

The mammal, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly, later died of a respiratory disease in 2003.

Wilmut’s effort in embryo development had earned him an OBE honours in 1999. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Wilmut had received many awards including the Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Award, the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, and the Shaw Prize for Medicine and Life Sciences.

He was also a former Time magazine man of the year runner up.