Regenerative engineering, racial profiling and healthcare disparities: A titan of life science speaks


Cato T Laurencin regenerative engineering

Cato T Laurencin, the father of regenerative engineering and winner of the Herbert W Nickens Award, talks launching a new field, mentorship and addressing disparities in healthcare. Please tell us about yourself and how you got to where you are today I work at the interface of medicine and engineering and am also someone that is very much involved in issues of social justice. I grew up in Philadelphia and became interested in medicine at a very early age, and decided I wanted to become a doctor. I started college at Princeton (NJ, USA) where I met people who were...

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