Leading

Researchers

Institutions
Leading the
Research

Anthony J. Atala MD

Director of the Wake Forest Institute of

Regenerative Medicine
Board certified Urologist
B.A. from University of Miami
M.D. University of Louisville School of
Medicine

Stephen F. Badylak DVM, PHD,

MD

Deputy director of the McGowan Institute

for Regenerative Medicine
D.V.M. from Purdue University
Ph.D. in Anatomic Pathology from
Purdue University
M.S. in Clinical Pathology from Purdue
University
M.D. from Indiana University Medical
School

Harald C. Ott M.D.

Principal Investigator at the Ott Lab for

Organ Engineering and Regeneration
Thoracic surgeon at Massachusetts
General Hospital, Assistant Professor in
Surgery at the Harvard Medical School
M.D. from University of Innsbruck in
Austria

Wake Forrest Institute for

Regenerative Medicine
391 Technology Way NE
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
(336)716-2011

The Ott Laboratory for Organ

Engineering and Regeneration
The Richard B. Simches Research Center
185 Cambridge St.
Boston, MA 02114

The McGowan Institute for

Regenerative Medicine
450 Technology Dr.
Ste. 300
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
(412)624-5363

Regenerative
Medicine

External Organ
Regeneration
Research
Skin stem cell spraying to repair

Internal Organ
Regeneration
Research
Solid Organs

burnt skin in a weekend for

Solid organs are very difficult to

certain patients leaving little to no

grow in a lab due to their

scarring.

complexity

Lab growing human ears to

o Kidney

burnt or damaged in combat.

o Liver

Hollow organs are much simpler

induce limb regeneration like

therefore easier to produce in a

some species of Salamander.

lab

bladder to induce the body to

regenerate lost muscle and limb
tissue.

Soldiers injured in combat

People with diseases that can
cause organ failure.
o Cardiomyopathy
o Cirrhosis
o COPD
o Cystic Fibrosis
o Polycystic Kidney Disease
o ETC.

Hollow Organs

the part of human DNA that could

Using the material from a pig

o Heart

replace a lost organ for soldiers

Researchers are trying to unlock

Who Will Benefit?

Other Benefits

o Bladder

Already used in human

transplants

o Stomach
o Trachea/Esophagus

Reduce organ transplant waitlist

size
Reduce possibility for organ
rejection