A Brief Look At The Illustrious Career of Dr. Robert Lanza

Dr. Robert Lanza is a reputed name in the field of stem cells and regenerative medicine and has been associated with several renowned organizations over the years. Apart from his extensive experience in the field of stem cells, he is also known to have several patents to his credit. He has also been the author of many medical books and scientific publications. 

 

Lanza has been a University Scholar as well as a Benjamin Franklin Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, wherein he undertook his degrees in B.A and M.D. He went on to work with B.F Skinner and Christian Barnard. He has also co-authored a few books with them. He had been a Fulbright Scholar and studied in the laboratories of the Nobel Laureates, Gerald Edelman, Rockefeller University and Rodney Porter, Oxford University, as well as the laboratories of Jonas Salk, the Salk Institute and Richard Hynes, MIT, as a student. He is known to have written and edited over 20 medical books, like The Yearbook of Cell & Tissue Transplantation, XENO, Principles of Tissue Engineering. He had been the editor for the book One World: The Health & Survival of the Human Species in the 21^st Century, which had forewords by former US President, Jimmy Carter and C. Everett Koop.

 

Dr. Robert Lanza served as the Director of Transplantation Biology from 1990 to 1998, at BioHybrid Technologies, Inc., after which he joined Advanced Cell Technology in 1999. He is currently associated with the Institute for Regenerative Medicine under the Wake Forest University School of Medicine as an Adjunct Professor.