Appointment
Professor, Integrative Biology and Physiology
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Repair
Expert Areas
Cardiology, Stem cells
Research Focus
Doris Taylor and team bring science from bench to bedside. She gained international recognition by developing a process called whole-organ decellularization and creating a beating heart in the laboratory. In this process, they rinsed all cells away from a rat heart and reseeded the remaining scaffold with a mixture of cells. Taylor demonstrated this approach works for other organs. With an ever-present shortage of organs for donation, Taylor hopes the decellularization process may one day make new donor organs.
Sources of Funding
National Institutes of Health (National Heart Lung Blood Institute)
AHA Jon Holden DeHaan Foundation
UMN - Medtronic Bakken Endowment
UMN Office of Technology Commercialization
