Podcast Directory

What is Regenerative Medicine?

Regenerative medicine is an exciting new field that seeks to understand how the body heals under normal conditions, then harness and amplify that process when and where it is needed most. Regenerative medicine treatments promote the growth of natural tissues or replicate the functions of those tissues to treat injuries and diseases that have not yet been conquered by traditional medicine. Regenerative medicine brings together biology, medicine, genetics, engineering, chemistry, robotics, computer science, and other fields to develop artificial organs, specially grown tissues and cells (including stem cells), laboratory-made compounds, and combinations of these approaches.

Regenerative Medicine Podcasts

The regenerative medicine podcast is published bi-weekly and features scientists and clinicians who are preeminent in regenerative medicine research and clinical translation. All interviews currently available are at www.regenerativemedicinetoday.com. You can download interviews to your PC or subscribe to the RSS feed on your iPod or PC.

The podcasts available for listening/download are:

• Dr. Eric Beckman is a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and the co-founder of Cohera Medical, Inc. (4.22.09)

• Dr. Peter Wearden is an Assistant Professor-Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Director Pediatric Mechanical Cardiopulmonary Support at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and a faculty member at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. (3.31.09)

• Dr. David Whitcomb is Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology and Physiology, and Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh.(2.27.09)

• Dr. Steven Little who is an Assistant Professor and Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellow, Departments of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Immunology, and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh (1.30.09)

• Major General (ret.) Gale S. Pollock, who is the executive director of the nation?s first Center for Ocular Regeneration and Vision Restoration (CORVR), a division of the UPMC eye center. (1.23.09)

• Sanjeev G. Shroff, PhD., who is the Associate Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh; Professor and Gerald McGinnis Chair in Bioengineering; Professor of Medicine; and Senior Investigator, Magee-Women?s Research Institute (1.2.09) 

• Dr. John Pollock who is Associate Professor-Bayer School of Natural Sciences and Environment, Duquesne University (12.18.08)

• Dr. David Whitcomb, Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology and Physiology, and Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh. Additionally, he is the Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, as well as the founder and Director of the Center for Genomic Sciences. (11.28.08)

• Dr. Vera Donnenberg, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Pharmaceutical Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

• John Manzetti, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG). (10.29.08

• Kerem Pekkan, PhD who is an Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. (9.29.08)

• Dr. Steven Little who is an Assistant Professor and Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellow, Departments of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Immunology, and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

• Dr. Newell Washburn who is an Assistant Professor, in the Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

• Thomas Tillett who is the founding President and CEO of RheoGene (8.12.08)

• Joel Schuman, MD.  Dr. Schuman is the Eye and Ear Foundation Professor and Chairman of Department of Ophthalmology (7.15.08)

• Latha Satish, Ph.D.  Dr. Satish is a Research Assistant Professor, Scarless Wound Healing Program at the Allegheny-Singer Research Institute  (6.22.08)

• Dr. Gerlach is Professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh (6.10.08)

• Dr. Marra is an Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh and Director of the Plastic Surgery Lab at the University of Pittsburgh (4.8.08)

• Steve Winowich, Director of Clinical Bioengineering with the Artificial Heart Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Chief Operating Officer of Vital Engineering, Inc. (3.24.08)

• Ms. Schanck is the Director, Education and Workforce Development at the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative (PTEI) (3.6.08)

• Dr. Phil G. Campbell, Research Professor, Institute of Complex Engineered Systems, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Also he has academic appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Biological Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering, and the Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center at CMU. (2.15.08)

• Alan Wells, MD, DMS, Head of Cell Biology at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. At the University of Pittsburgh, he is Vice-Chair and Thomas J Gill III Professor of the Department of Pathology. In addition, Dr. Wells is the Medical Director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) CSLI, and the Staff Pathologist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (2.1.08)

• Eric Lagasse, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Associate professor in the Department of Pathology and the Director of the Cancer Stem Cell Center, a joint venture between the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. (1.10.08)

• Peter Wearden, MD, PhD., Assistant Professor-Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Director Pediatric Mechanical Cardiopulmonary Support at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and a faculty member at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (12.24.07)

• Dr. Jennifer Braemar Ogilvie, Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, Section of Endocrine Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and a faculty member at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (11.27.07)

• SYIS-TERMIS-NA leadership reviews the vision and the operations of the Chapter and the benefits of students and post-doctoral fellows joining the Society (11.06.07)

• Dr. David Vorp, Associate Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering. Director of the Vascular Surgery and Vascular Biomechanics Research Lab (10.17.07)

• David S. Smith, corporate attorney at Pepper Hamilton LLP, specializing in intellectual property transactions, regulatory issues, and licensing. (09.30.07)

• Dr. Kim S. Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University (09.17.07)

• Dr. Anshu Mathur, Assistant Professor in the new Inter-Institutional Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Department of Plastic Surgery at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (08.31.07)

• Dr. George Christ, PhD, Professor at Wake Forest University and the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (08.15.07)

• Dr. Alejandro Nieponice, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh (08.01.07)

• Dr. Milica Radisic, Assistant Professor, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto (07.17.07)

• Dr. Baer, Director of the Research Office at the Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, Texas (06.28.07)

• Dr. Michael Sacks, Director of the Engineered Tissue Mechanics and Mechanobiology Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh (06.03.07)

• Dr. Bruno Peault, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh (05.18.07)

• Dr. Rory Cooper, Chair and Distinguished University Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh. (04.30.07)

• Dr. Ajit Yoganathan, Regents’ Professor, Associate Chair for Research, and the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. (04.24.07)

• Dr. Stephen Badylak, Professor at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh. (04.24.07)

• Thomas R. Harris, MD, PhD, Orrin Henry Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Medicine, Vanderbilt University; Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University (03.01.07)

• Michael Chancellor, MD, Professor of Urology, University of Pittsburgh; Director of Neurourology and Urinary Incontinence Programs, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh; practicing OB/GYN (02.13.07)

• Robert Eberhart, PhD, Professor, Department of Engineering in Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern (01.30.07)

• Yoram Vodovotz, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh (01.16.07)

• Alan J. Russell, PhD, Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine; University Professor of Surgery, Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Rehabilitation Sciences and Technology, University of Pittsburgh (12.27.06)

• Peter DeComo, Co-Founder, Renal Solutions (12.15.06)

• Doros Platika, MD, former President and Chief Executive Officer, Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse; current Chairman, Supercentenarian Research Foundation (11.29.06)

• Shelley Zomak and Judi Vensak, Managers of Team Pittsburgh during the 2006 and the upcoming 2008 Transplant Games (11.14.06)

• William Wagner, PhD, Deputy Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Associate Professor of Surgery, Chemical Engineering, and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh (10.27.06)

• Robert Kormos, MD, Medical Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Director, UPMC Artificial Heart Program (10.11.06)

• Harvey Borovetz, PhD, Deputy Director, Artificial Organs and Medical Devices, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Chair, Bioengineering Department, University of Pittsburgh (09.29.06)

• Peter Katona, PhD, Whitaker Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer from 2000 to 2006 (09.14.06)

• William Federspiel, PhD, William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Chemical Engineering, Surgery and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh; Director, Medical Devices Laboratory: Biotransport, Pulmonary, and Cardiovascular, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
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  Marina Kameneva, PhD, Research Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh; Director, Artificial Blood Program, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (08.31.06)

• Kevin Shakesheff, PhD, Professor of Tissue Engineering, University of Nottingham; Founding Director, Tissue Engineering Group, University of Nottingham
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  Nick Rhodes, PhD, Director, Cell Biology, University of Liverpool (08.16.06)

• Malla Padidam, PhD, Scientist, RheoGene, Inc.
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  David S. Smith, Esq, Pepper Hamilton LLP (07.31.06)

• Professor Jöns Hilborn, Department of Materials Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden
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  Ivan Martin, PhD, University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland (07.14.06)

• David Williams, PhD, Director, United Kingdom Centre for Tissue Engineering (UKCTE), a research collaboration among the University of Manchester and University of Liverpool
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  Ms. Mary Ann Liebert, Publisher of more than 60 respected books and scientific journals (06.30.06)

• Anthony Atala, MD, Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Chairman, Department of Urology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine (06.15.06)

• Patrick E. Crago, PhD, Allen H. and Constance T. Ford Professor and Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University (05.31.06)

• Savio L-Y. Woo, PhD, DSc, W. K. Whiteford Professor, Department of Bioengineering; Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Professor, Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh (05.15.06)

• Van C. Mow, PhD, Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedic Bioengineering; Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University (04.26.06)

• Carolyn Green, Director of the Office of Enterprise Development, Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (04.14.06)

• Andrés J. García, PhD, Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology’s Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (03.31.06)

• Amit N. Patel, MD, MS, Director, Center for Cardiac Cell Therapy, UPMC and McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (03.13.06)

• Frederick J. Schoen, MD, PhD, Professor, Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women?s Hospital (03.01.06)

• Stephen Badylak, DVM, PhD, MD, Research Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh; Director, Center for Pre-Clinical Tissue Engineering, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (02.14.06)

• Alyssa Panitch, PhD, Associate Professor, Harrington Department of Bioengineering, Arizona State University (01.24.06)

• Alan J. Russell, PhD, Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine; University Professor of Surgery, Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Rehabilitation Sciences and Technology, University of Pittsburgh (12.15.05)