Robert Lanza, M.D., Adjunct Professor
Dr. Lanza is currently Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, as well as Vice President of Research and Scientific development at Advanced Cell Technology, Worcester, Massachusetts. He has several hundred scientific publications and patents, and has authored/edited 18 books, including Essentials of Stem Cell Biology, the Handbook of Stem Cells, Principles of Tissue Engineering, and Methods of Tissue Engineering. Dr. Lanza received his B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was both a University Scholar and Benjamin Franklin Scholar. He is a former Fulbright Scholar, and studied in the laboratory of Richard Hynes, Jonas Salk, and Nobel laureates Gerald Edelman and Rodney Porter. He also worked closely with the late Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner and heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard.

SYNOPSIS OF AREA OF INTEREST: Embryonic stem cells and their derivatives.

PUBLICATIONS:

Klimanskaya, I., Chung, Y., Becker, S., S.J. Lu, and Lanza, R. Human embryonic stem cell lines derived from single blastomeres. Nature 2006; 444: 481-485.

Chung, Y., Klimanskaya, I., Becker, S., Marh, J., Meisner, L., Johnson, J., and Lanza, R. Embryonic and extraembryonic stem cell lines derived from single mouse blastomeres. Nature 2006; 439: 216-219.

Klimanskaya, I., Chung, Y., Meisner, L., Johnson, J., West, M.D., and Lanza, R. Human embryonic stem cells derived without feeder cells. The Lancet 2005;361:1496.

Lanza, R., and Rosenthal, N. The stem cell challenge. Scientific American 2004; 290: 92-100.

Lanza, R.P., Chung, H.Y., Yoo, J.J., Wettstein, P.J., Blackwell, C., Borson, N., Hofmeister, E., Schuch, G., Soker, S. Moraes, C.T., West, M.D. and Atala, A. Generation of histocompatible tissues using nuclear transplantation. Nature Biotechnology 2002;20:689-696.


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