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Bob Tranquillo is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Research Summary
The Tranquillo research group is developing biologically-engineered “off-the-shelf” vascular grafts, heart valves, and vein valves. What is particularly exciting is that we have shown our material, produced by skin cells (fibroblasts), has the capacity to grow (Nature Comms, 2016) and may thus transform the treatment of pediatric congenital heart defects.