Preeminent Tissue Engineering Team to Establish Program at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Friday, June 15, 2012 - 11:31
in Health & Medicine
Christopher Breuer, MD, Toshiharu Shinoka, MD, PhD, and their tissue engineering team will be joining the faculty of Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University College of Medicine this fall. Breuer and Shinoka, currently at Yale University, were the first in the world to tissue engineer blood vessels and implant them in human infants for repair of congenital heart defects. They currently have US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to conduct the first U.S human trial to investigate the safety and effectiveness of this method. They and their team will conduct this work at Nationwide Children's Hospital.