Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Anthony Atala

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a professor Anthony Atala.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Anthony Atala, M.D., is an American bioengineer, urologist, and pediatric surgeon. He is the W.H. Boyce professor of urology, the founding director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina. His work focuses on the science of regenerative medicine: "a practice that aims to refurbish diseased or damaged tissue using the body's own healthy cells".

Professor | Born: 1958

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[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.

Anthony Atala

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement.

Anthony Atala

When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a persons natural tendency is to reject that organ.

Anthony Atala

Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.

Anthony Atala