{"id":80089,"date":"2018-06-28T08:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/dr-anthony-atala-wake-forest-institute-for-regenerative-medicine"},"modified":"2018-06-30T15:01:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:01:14","slug":"dr-anthony-atala-wake-forest-institute-for-regenerative-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/dr-anthony-atala-wake-forest-institute-for-regenerative-medicine","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Anthony Atala \u2014 Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dr-anthony-atala-wake-forest-institute-for-regenerative-medicine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An interview with regenerative medicine luminary Dr. Anthony Atala.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>After meeting him at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/the-astana-global-challenges-summit-2018\/\">Astana Global Challenges Summit 2018<\/a>, we\u2019ve kindly been granted an interview by Dr. Anthony Atala, M.D., Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the W. Boyce Professor and Chair of Urology at Wake Forest University.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Atala is one of the most influential names in the field of regenerative medicine and biotechnology. His research focuses on growing human cells and tissues for use in transplants, and given the constant dire need for organ donors worldwide, his work is poised to improve\u2014and save\u2014the lives of millions. He and his team have already successfully engineered and transplanted bladders into living patients, and as he\u2019s told us himself, more types of tissue have been engineered and tested in models; hopefully, they will one day be usable in patients as well.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Atala\u2019s groundbreaking work has earned him countless awards, prizes, and nominations in well-known magazines, such as Scientific American, Time Magazine, the Huffington Post, and many others; he has also served on the boards and committees of several organizations, such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, and SENS Research Foundation. A more detailed biography of Dr. Atala can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakehealth.edu\/Research\/WFIRM\/Anthony-Atala,-MD,-Director-and-Chair.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/dr-anthony-atala-wake-forest-institute-for-regenerative-medicine\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/dr-anthony-atala-wake-forest-ins...-medicine\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with regenerative medicine luminary Dr. Anthony Atala. After meeting him at the Astana Global Challenges Summit 2018, we\u2019ve kindly been granted an interview by Dr. Anthony Atala, M.D., Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the W. Boyce Professor and Chair of Urology at Wake Forest University. Dr. Atala is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80221,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80089\/revisions\/80221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}