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Atala Surveys Successes of Regenerative Medicine |
| By Rich McManus |
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| Dr. Anthony Atala speaks at NIH. |
Just as the auto parts store is a boon to the car repair
business, the field of regenerative medicine is slowly becoming an invaluable parts warehouse as thousands of scientists from many fields including cell biology, engineering and physics are collaborating
to build facsimiles of human tissues, structures and organs.
Already, there is a college student named Luke M. who, a decade ago, received a hand-crafted bladder and has been living a largely normal life, said Dr. Anthony
Atala, who gave a Wednesday Afternoon Lecture
on Jan. 25 titled, “Regenerative Medicine: Current
Concepts and Changing Trends.”
Director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative
Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, he surveyed the problems and promise of a field that can be traced back at least as far as the first human organ transplant,
a kidney, in Boston in 1954. A quarter century before that, the book The Culture of Organs had been published, with famed aviator Charles Lindbergh as a coauthor.
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On National Wear Red Day
NIH Expresses Thanks via Flash Mob |
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| NHLBI acting director Dr. Susan Shurin and acting deputy director Dr. Carl Roth express their thanks. |
NHLBI honored those who work to advance heart disease research and care on National Wear Red Day on Feb. 3, with more than 70 NIH staff members performing a flash mob dance in front of surprised Clinical Center patients and staff.
For 10 years, NHLBI has led the nation in observing National Wear Red Day—an opportunity to raise awareness that heart disease, while still the #1 killer of American women and men, is largely preventable.
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