Mcgowan Institute For Regenerative Medicine

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Scott Nyberg, MD, PhD. Dr. Nyberg is a professor of surgery and the director of the Artificial Liver Program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Nyberg discusses his research in the treatment of liver failure and liver disease. For more information about Dr. Nyberg, click here. Host John Murphy. For more [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Geoff Gurtner, MD. Dr. Gurtner is a professor of surgery in the division of plastic surgery at Stanford University Medical Center. Dr. Gurtner discusses his research in scar mitigation and wound healing. For more information about Dr. Gurtner, click here. Host John Murphy. For more information about the McGowan [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes back Stephen F. Badylak DVM, PhD, MD, and also welcomes former marine Sgt. Ronald Strang. Dr. Badylak is a Professor in the Department of Surgery, a deputy director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (MIRM), and Director of the Center for Pre-Clinical Tissue Engineering within the Institute. Dr. [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Michel Modo, PhD. Dr. Modo is an associate professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Michel Modo discusses his research in neuroimaging and stem cell therapy in relation to strokes. For more information about Dr. Modo, click here. Host John Murphy. For more information about [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Yoram Vodovotz, PhD. Dr. Vodovotz is the Director of the Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling. He is also a Professor of Surgery, Immunology, Computational and Systems Biology, Clinical and Translational Science, and Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Vodovotz discusses his research in wound [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes George Christ, PhD. Dr. Christ is a Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Translational Science, Urology and Physiology and Pharmacology Core Faculty Member at Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences. Dr. Christ discusses his research in musculoskeletal tissue engineering as well as his work in bladder regeneration. [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes John Foster, BSc(Hons), PhD, CBiol, FIBiol. Dr. Foster is an associate professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia.  Dr. Foster discusses his research to produce an innovative technology for improved nerve repair by using a new surgical bioadhesive that overcomes the disadvantages associated with current surgical procedures. [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Bruno Péault, PhD. Dr. Péault is Professor and Chair at the University of Edinburgh, Center for Vascular Science, and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCLA. Dr. Péault discusses the use of stem cells in research and how far our knowledge of stem cells have come. For more information about [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Steven L. Wolf, PhD, PT, FAPTA. Dr. Wolf is a Research Physiologist at the Atlanta Vision Loss Center and Professor in the Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Medicine, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine. He is also Professor of Health and Elder Care [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Thomas Rando, PhD. Dr. Rando is the deputy director of the Stanford Center on Longevity at Stanford University and a professor with the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine.  Dr. Rando discusses his research in muscle stem cell biology as well as his role in [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Elia Beniash, PhD. Dr. Beniash is an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, Department of Oral Biology.  Dr. Beniash discusses his research in biogenic mineralized materials - such as those found in bones and teeth - as well as dentino-enamel interface. For more information about Dr.Beniash, click [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Anand Swaroop, PhD. Dr. Swaroop is Senior Investigator and Chief at the Neurobiology Neurodegeneration Repair Laboratory, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Swaroop discusses his research in retinal and macular diseases and the progress his lab has made in the field. For more information about Dr.Swaroop, click [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Frank Witte, MD, PhD, Diego Mantovani, PhD, Prashant Kumta, PhD, and Charles Sfeir, MD, PhD. Dr. Witte is the Director of Biomaterial Research at the Laboratory for Biomechnics and Biomaterials, Hannover Medical School in Germany; Dr. Mantovani is the Director at the Laboratoire de biomatériaux et bioingénierie at the [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes J. Peter Rubin, MD. Dr. Rubin is the Chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Rubin discusses his upcoming clinical trials in facial and breast reconstruction. For more information about Dr. Rubin, click here. For more information about [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes John Curci, MD, FACS. Dr. Curci is an Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Vascular Surgery Section at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Curci discusses his research on abdominal aortic aneurysm. For more information about Dr. Curci, click here. Host John Murphy. For more information about [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Adam Feinberg, PhD and Rachelle Palchesko, PhD.  Dr. Feinberg is the principal investigator of the Regenerative Biomaterials and Therapeutics Group at Carnegie Mellon University.  Dr. Palchesko is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the group.  Drs. Feinberg and Palchesko discuss the development of basement membranes and the regeneration of corneal [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Pratap Khanwilkar, PhD. Dr. Khanwilkar is the Coulter Program Director and Visiting Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, and Executive-In-Residence with the Office of Technology Management at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Utah. Dr. Khanwilkar discusses the Coulter Foundation and [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Philip LeDuc, PhD. Dr. LeDuc is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, with courtesy appointments in Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Computational Biology. Dr. LeDuc discusses the role mechanical engineering plays in regenerative medicine as well as his project to make vegetables more palatable for malnourished [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Robert Nerem, PhD. Dr. Nerem is the Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine and Institute Professor at Georgia Tech. Dr. Nerem discusses advances made in tissue engineering and the direction in which the field is headed. For more information about Dr. Nerem, click here. Host John [...]

Regenerative Medicine Today welcomes Harald Ott, MD. Dr. Ott is at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and his interests are cardiac cell therapy and cardiac tissue engineering. Dr. Ott discusses his research in whole organ engineering, focusing on the heart. For more information about Dr. Ott, click here. Host John Murphy. For [...]