专家简介

Robert Lanza, is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology. He has hundreds of publications and inventions, and over 30 scientific books: among them, “Principles of Tissue Engineering” and “Essentials of Stem Cell Biology,” which are recognised as the definitive references in the field. Dr Robert Lanza joined ACT in 1999 and has over 30 years of research and industrial experience in the area of stem cells and regenerative medicine. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He has several hundred of publications and inventions, and over two dozen scientific books: among them, “Essentials of Stem Cell Biology” and “Principles of Tissue Engineering” which are recognized as the definitive references in the field. Others include “Principles of Regenerative Medicine” and “One World: The Health & Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century” (as editor, with forewords by C. Everett Koop and former President Jimmy Carter). If all goes to plan for ACT and Dr Lanza, 2013 should see the first human trial of “rewound” cells. These are produced by turning adult cells back to a stem cell state and then coaxing them into becoming another type of cell. It will mark a milestone in the ability to generate new tissue – and maybe whole organs – from people’s own cells.