Medical Pioneers

Web resources on Vacanti's liver

-- Compiled by Journal staff writer G. Wayne Miller

Tissue Engineering Society International, one of the leading professional organizations in the emerging field of regenerative medicine:
http://www.tesinternational.org/

An official biography of tissue engineering pioneer Joseph P. Vacanti can be
found at
http://www.cimit.org/bios/vacanti.html

Further details of Vacanti's research and his research team is available at his site:
http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/depts/tissue/index.html

Renowned MIT scientist Rober Langer sponsors a site devoted to his pioneering work at
http://web.mit.edu/cheme/langerlab/

Draper Lab in Cambridge, Mass., designs navigation systems for guided missiles -- and also components of Vacanti's liver device:
http://www.draper.com/

The Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, or CIMIT, is a research collaborative of Harvard, MIT, and several Boston hospitals:
http://www.cimit.org/

Vacanti works at The Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/

The American Liver Foundation has ample information on livers -- both healthy and diseased. Find it at:
http://www.liverfoundation.org/

The Virginia-based United Network for Organ Sharing has statistics on transplants and waiting lists, and also information on donating organs:
http://www.unos.org/

Find Web resources on cryonics and its proponents, as well as previous installments in The Fountain of Youth series at: http://projo.com/extra/2003/medical_pioneers/