Dr. Kim S. Jones visits Regenerative Medicine Today and gives us an insight into her exciting research in regenerative medicine. Dr. Jones is an Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University. Her research interests center on the interactions between tissue engineering and the host response. Tissue engineering is intended to repair, replace [...]

Dr. Anshu Mathur visits Regenerative Medicine Today and introduces us to her exciting research on regenerative medicine. Dr. Mathur is an Assistant Director for Research at the Laboratory of Reparative Biology and Bioengineering at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Mathur’s research objective focuses on elucidating the cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions in tissue [...]

George Christ, PhD visits Regenerative Medicine Today and shares his vision on regenerative medicine. Dr. Christ is a professor at Wake Forest University and the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Christ's research interests are in the area of functional genomics, that is, establishing a verifiable link between changes in gene expression [...]

Alejandro Nieponice, MD, PhD visits regenerative medicine today and discusses his studies related to tissue engineering and translational medicine. Dr. Alejandro Nieponice is currently a Research Assistant Professor of the department of surgery at University of Pittsburgh and faculty of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He is also a surgical associate and [...]

Dr. Milica Radisic visits Regenerative Medicine Today and discusses her studies related to functional tissue engineering. Dr. Radisic is an Assistant Professor, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto. In the podcast, Dr. Radisic discusses the research in the Laboratory for Functional Tissue Engineering [...]

Dr. David Baer visits Regenerative Medicine Today and discusses the programs of the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research.  Dr. Baer is the Director of the Research Office at the Institute of Surgical Research in San Antonio, Texas. In the podcast, Dr. Baer discusses: Mission of the Army includes operational medicine; aka sports [...]

Dr. Michael Sacks visits Regenerative Medicine Today and discusses his work on the characterization of cardiac tissue and the various alternatives-now and in the future-for the repair of heart valves. Dr. Sacks is the director of the Engineered Tissue Mechanics and Mechanobiology Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh where the research focuses on [...]

Dr. Bruno Peault visits Regenerative Medicine Today and discusses the status of his emerging results on the identification, characterization and application of adult stem cells for therapeutic applications. Dr. Bruno Peault and his colleague, Dr. Johnny Huard, provide the leadership for the Stem Cell Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh/Children’s Hospital of [...]

Dr. Rory Cooper visits Regenerative Medicine Today and shares highlights of his exciting studies on rehabilitation. Dr. Cooper is the Chair and Distinguished University Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh.  He also is a Veterans Affairs Career Scientist and Director, Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL), VA Center of Excellence [...]

In Podcast 30, we meet Ajit Yoganathan, PhD, Regents' Professor, Associate Chair for Research, and the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Yoganathan and his colleagues are focusing on the development artificial heart valves and the use of novel instrumentation such as Doppler ultrasound [...]