Dr. Anthony Atala wins 2011 TAPPI Innovation in Nonwovens Award

Published On: August 31, 2011

Dr. Anthony Atala has been awarded the first annual 2011 Innovation in Nonwovens Award for his work using nonwoven scaffolds for regenerative medicine. The award, which recognizes companies/universities/organizations that are moving the nonwovens industry forward and changing the world we live in through innovation, is sponsored by TAPPI’s Nonwovens Engineers and Technologists (NET) Division. The award will be presented during the Innovation Keynote Session at the upcoming 2011 NETInc Conference, Sept. 13-15, 2011, in Atlanta, Ga. During the presentation, Dr. Atala will discuss his work and also provide his view of the future of nonwovens in the medical arena.

Dr. Atala, M.D., is director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the W.H. Boyce Professor and Chair of Urology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina. His team engineered the first lab-grown organ to be implanted into a human—a bladder—and is developing experimental fabrication technology to “print” human tissue on demand. He also operates regularly and runs a busy pediatric urology clinic. He was number 71 on Fast Company magazine’s Top 100 Most Creative People in Business, and has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey show.

Source: TAPPI