Stem cells will ‘change medicine forever,’ says UB surgeon-turned-stem cell engineer

Natesh Parashurama, MD, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University at Buffalo, has made his life’s mission the translation of stem cell research from the laboratory to patients.

A UB faculty member since 2016, and alumnus of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, he earned his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rutgers, also did doctoral research at Harvard Medical School, and postdoctoral research at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco.

Parashurama conducts research on building 3-D internal organs, like the liver and pancreas, from human stem cells.

 

WideCells Group PLC (LON:WDC) is building an integrated stem cell services company, focused on making stem cell treatments accessible and affordable.  

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