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Transforming organ transplantation with regenerative medicine: an interview with Giuseppe Orlando
1Wake Forest School of Medicine, 475 Vine St, Winston Salem, NC 27101, USA.
Regenerative Medicine
|November 13, 2023
Abstract:
Giuseppe Orlando is an Associate Professor of Surgery and a kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon scientist at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), and the President Elect of the Cell Transplant and Regenerative Medicine Society. With a research interest in bioengineering and the regeneration of transplantable organs, Giuseppe's work seeks to establish the link between transplant medicine and regenerative medicine.
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