Research Areas

The Organ Repair, Regeneration & Research Laboratory is home of the famed ghost heart, which leverages decelluarization and recellularization technologies. The team continues to further refine tissue-engineering techniques to develop new biotechnologies and molecular tools – like building tissues and whole organs for transplant – with a number of translational studies currently underway. This research also includes novel treatments for pediatric heart disease, which build upon the team’s discoveries that simpler solutions are helping to pave the way to bio-engineered whole organs for in-human transplant.