Anthony Atala
Anthony Atala
Anthony Atala, M.D.is the W.H. Boyce Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina. Regenerative medicine is "a practice that aims to refurbish diseased or damaged tissue using the body's own healthy cells."...
NationalityPeruvian
ProfessionScientist
CountryPeru
pleased terms territory uncharted
It was really uncharted territory in terms of how you do these things. We're very pleased with how well they're functioning.
country donor functional generate medicine needing organs shortage shown solution techniques
We have shown that regenerative medicine techniques can be used to generate functional bladders that are durable. This suggests that regenerative medicine may one day be a solution to the shortage of donor organs in this country for those needing transplants.
technology cells use
[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.
tissues disease patient
Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement,
labs different building
Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.