Doris Taylor
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Doris Anita Taylor is an American scientist working in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. She was the Director, Regenerative Medicine Research and Director, Center for Cell and Organ Biotechnology at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Texas until March 2020. She is the Co-Founder of Miromatrix Medical, Inc. and
Co-Founder of Organamet Bio, Inc.
Biography
Taylor was born in San Francisco and lived in Germany with her parents and two siblings, where her father was in the military. When Taylor was 6 years old, her father was diagnosed with cancer, and the family moved to Texas to seek medical treatment. Experiencing her father's death from cancer, and caring for her brother, who had schizophrenia, led her to a career in medical research.{{cite news |author=Maggie Galehouse |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |date=January 23, 2013 |url=http://www.chron.com/news/health/article/Saving-lives-with-help-from-pigs-and-cells-4217384.php |title=Saving lives with help from pigs and cells}}Texas Medical Center Press Office. March 18, 2014 [http://www.tmcnews.org/articles/tmc-spotlight-texas-heart-institutes-doris-a-taylor-phd TMC Spotlight: Texas Heart Institute's Doris A. Taylor, Ph.D.]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Taylor earned her B.S. from Mississippi University for Women in Biology and Physical Sciences and earned her PhD in Pharmacology from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.[http://www.texasheartinstitute.org/Research/RegenerativeMedicine/director.cfm Doris A. Taylor page at THI] She did her post-doctoral studies at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, where she first worked with tissue engineering, growing heart muscle cells in the laboratory.Krista Tippett for On Being. September 30, 2010 [http://www.onbeing.org/program/stem-cells-untold-stories/178 Doris Taylor — Stem Cells, Untold Stories] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026044904/http://www.onbeing.org/program/stem-cells-untold-stories/178 |date=2016-10-26 }}
She was on the faculty of Duke University from 1991 to 2007, on the faculty of the University of Minnesota from 2003 to 2012, and was with the Texas Heart Institute from 2012 to 2020. As of 2014 she retains an adjunct professor role at University of Minnesota and was an adjunct professor at Texas A&M University until 2020.
Research
In 2008, Taylor's team published a paper in Nature Medicine showing that her team could create beating rat hearts using tissue engineering;{{cite journal |last=Ott |first=HC |display-authors=etal |title=Perfusion- decellularized: Using Nature's Platform to Engineer Bioartificial Heart |journal=Nat Med |date=February 2008 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=213–21 |pmid=18193059 |doi=10.1038/nm1684}} the work was called a "landmark". The lab first stripped the cells away from a rat heart (a process called "decellularization") and then injected rat stem cells into the decellularized rat heart.{{cite news |author=Lawrence K. Altman |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 13, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/health/13cnd-heart.html |title=Researchers Create New Rat Heart in Lab}}
Taylor also is conducting research which has uncovered differences in the underlying framework of male and female hearts and other vital organs.{{cite news |work=60 Minutes |date=May 25, 2014 |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sex-matters-who-has-the-softer-heart/ |title=Who has the softer heart?}}
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