
Woodring E. Wright
UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Biography
Woodring E. Wright Professor of Cell Biology and Southland Financial Corporation Distinguished Chair in Geriatric Research. He received his BA degree, Summa Cum Laude, from Harvard University in 1970, a PhD under the direction of Dr. Leonard Hayflick in 1974 and an MD from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1975. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France with Dr. Francois Gros, he joined the faculty at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas in 1978.
Abstract
Abstract : The creation of artificial lungs from decellularized tissue