Joseph P. Vacanti
American surgeon and researcher (born 1948)
Biography
Joseph P. Vacanti (born October 31, 1948) 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.
Along with Robert Langer, Eugene Bell, and Yuan-Cheng Fung, he is considered as a father of tissue engineering 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.
He graduated from Creighton University (BA), Harvard Medical School (MS), and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (MD).
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Career highlights
Employers / organisations
- Harvard University
Awards & honours (2)
- Clarivate Citation Laureates
- John Scott Award
Quick answers about Joseph P. Vacanti
- How old is Joseph P. Vacanti?
- Joseph P. Vacanti is 78 years old (born 1948).
- Where was Joseph P. Vacanti born?
- Joseph P. Vacanti was born in Omaha.
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- Joseph P. Vacanti is a citizen of United States.
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- Joseph P. Vacanti is known as university teacher, physician, surgeon.
