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| Laura E. Niklason, MD, PhD Associate Professor and Chief, Section of Anesthesiology Departments of Anesthesia and Biomedical Engineering Yale University School of Medicine Dr. Laura Niklason is currently an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. Her area of research expertise is in cardiovascular tissue engineering. Dr. Niklason received her PhD in Biophysics from the University of Chicago in 1988, and her MD from the University of Michigan in 1991. While completing residency and fellowship training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, she pursued her scientific career as a post-doctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she became involved in vascular tissue engineering. Since moving to Duke University in 1998, Dr. Niklason has continued to work in the engineering of small caliber vascular grafts, using both animal and human cells. Dr. Niklason was the first to show the feasibility of culturing and implanting completely autologous tissue engineered arteries in an animal model, and this work was published in Science in 1999. Since that time, Dr. Niklason has worked to extend these techniques to cells that are derived from elderly humans with cardiovascular disease. This work has been recognized by several awards, including being named a Hunt Scholar in the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke, and being cited as one of 21 Innovators for the 21st century by US News & World Report. | |
| Primary Research (for Beeson Program): Lifespan Extension For Vascular Tissue Engineering
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