Joseph P. Vacanti
Joseph Philip Vacanti (born 1948 in Omaha , Nebraska ) is an American surgeon and transplant researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital .
Vacanti acquired in 1970 at Creighton University in Omaha , Nebraska , a Bachelor and 1974 at the University of Nebraska an MD as the conclusion of the medical school . He trained in general surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital , pediatric surgery at Boston Children's Hospital, and transplant surgery at the University of Pittsburgh .
Vacanti is now (as of 2013) Chief Physician of Pediatric Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children , Director of the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication and the Department of Pediatric Transplant Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital . He is also a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School .
Since the beginning of the 1980s Vacanti has been involved in tissue engineering , the artificial manufacture of tissues, of which he is counted as one of the pioneers. His interest in tissue engineering resulted from the lack of organs for transplantation . The approach developed by Vacantis in collaboration with Robert Langer first uses a scaffold made of resorbable polymers , on which living cells are sown and stimulated with growth factors . The cells can either come from the planned target tissue or be stem cells . The cells grow along the scaffold in the desired three-dimensional shape, which corresponds to the function of the transplant. After implantation in the patient, blood vessels grow into the tissue and the transplant takes over its biological function (see Vacanti mouse ). The scaffolding is broken down by the patient's body over time.
Thomson Reuters lists Vacanti as a favorite for a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ).
Joseph Vacanti has three brothers who are also involved in tissue engineering: Charles , Martin and Francis.
Web links
- Joseph Philip Vacanti, MD , and The Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication at Massachusetts General Hospital
- Joseph Vacanti, MD at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ 900 Famous Nebraskans (PDF, 1.1 MB, p. 93) at the Nebraska Press Association (nebpress.com); accessed on February 21, 2016
- ^ Hall of Citation Laureates at Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.com); Retrieved May 24, 2013
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/30/health/scientists-work-joseph-charles-martin-francis-vacanti-old-cars-cartilage.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vacanti, Joseph P. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vacanti, Joseph; Vacanti, Joseph Philip (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American surgeon and transplant researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Omaha , Nebraska |