Joseph P. Vacanti | |
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| Born | October 31, 1948 |
| Alma mater | Creighton University (BS) University of Nebraska (MD) Harvard University (MS) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pediatric surgery Tissue engineering Regenerative medicine |
| Institutions | Massachusetts General Hospital |
Joseph Vacanti is an American pediatric surgeon and researcher who is the director of the Laboratory of Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the John Homans Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.[1]
Along with Robert Langer, Eugene Bell, and Yuan-Cheng Fung, he is considered as a father of tissue engineering[2][3][4] with seminal contributions as co-author of the Principles of Tissue Engineering (with Langer, Robert Lanza, and Anthony Atala) and creation of the Vacanti mouse in 1997.
Vacanti was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2001.[5]
He graduated from Creighton University (BA), Harvard Medical School (MS), and University of Nebraska College of Medicine (MD).[6]