Translating Regenerative Medicine to the Clinic

Dr Laurence is pursuing the pathophysiology of cardiovascular and skeletal abnormalities linked to HIV disease and its therapies at Weill Cornell. Dr Laurence is the editor-in-chief of Translational Medicine, which Elsevier co-publishes with the CSCTR.

Pedro Baptista, PharmD, PhD, Marie Curie Alumni, is a Senior ARAID Researcher at IIS Aragon, Zaragoza, Spain, where he directs the Laboratory of Organ Bioengineering and Regenerative Medicine. He serves as a Visiting Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Dr. Baptista earned his Pharmacy Degree from the University of Lisbon and completed his PhD training at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, USA. He is Secretary General of the European Society of Artificial Organs (ESAO) and Chair of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) Regenerative Hepatology Consortium. Dr. Baptista has published extensively in high-impact journals on organ bioengineering, organoids, and regenerative hepatology, holds four patents, and has successfully spun off several related technologies into companies.

Anthony Atala, MD, is the G. Link Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the W. Boyce Professor and Chair of Urology. Dr. Atala is a practicing surgeon and a researcher in the area of regenerative medicine. Fifteen applications of technologies developed in Dr. Atala's laboratory have been used clinically. He is Editor of 25 books and 3 journals. Dr. Atala has published over 800 journal articles and has received over 250 national and international patents. Dr. Atala was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences, to the National Academy of Inventors as a Charter Fellow, and to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Atala has led or served several national professional and government committees, including the National Institutes of Health working group on Cells and Developmental Biology, the National Institutes of Health Bioengineering Consortium, and the National Cancer Institute’s Advisory Board. He is a founding member of the Tissue Engineering Society, Regenerative Medicine Foundation, Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing Innovation Consortium, Regenerative Medicine Development Organization, and Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing Society.