Anthony Atala Quotes

United States, Scientist
July 14, 1958

Anthony Atala, M.D. (born July 14, 1958) 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."

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.

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Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement.

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It was really uncharted territory in terms of how you do these things. We're very pleased with how well they're functioning.

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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.

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[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.

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This is a small, limited experience, but it has enough follow-up to show us that tissue engineering is a viable tool that will allow us to tackle problems of similar magnitude.

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When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a person's natural tendency is to reject that organ.

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