Sally Temple received her training from Cambridge University, U.K, University College London, U.K. and Columbia University, NY. Her research was the first to describe self-renewing, multipotent stem cells in the embryonic mouse forebrain in papers published in 1989 and 1994. She has continued to be a pioneer in the stem cell field, developing methods to grow these stem cells in tissue culture, to identify them using specific cell markers and to examine their genetic composition.