Charles A. Vacanti | |
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Born | 1950 (age 73–74) Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
Other names | Chuck Vacanti[1] |
Alma mater | Creighton University, University of Nebraska College of Medicine |
Known for | Vacanti mouse, STAP cells |
Spouse | Linda |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Tissue engineering, anesthesiology, stem cells |
Institutions | Brigham and Women's Hospital (retired), Harvard Medical School |
Notable students | Haruko Obokata |
Website | Brigham and Women's profile |
Charles Alfred "Chuck"[1] Vacanti (born 1950) is a researcher in tissue engineering[2] and stem cells and the Vandam/Covino Professor of Anesthesiology, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School.[3] He is a former head of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Massachusetts and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, now retired.
He is known for the Vacanti mouse, a mouse created with Linda Griffith and Joseph Upton with cartilage shaped like a human ear on its back, and for being the senior author on the first of two retracted articles on STAP cells, a concept proposed by his brother and himself, and co-authored with Haruko Obokata.
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