Organovo's Scientific Founder and Chief Scientif
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Organovo's Scientific Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Gabor Forgacs
is the Executive and Scientific Director of the Shipley Center for Innovation at Clarkson University and the George H. Vineyard Professor of Biological Physics at the University of Missouri.
He developed Organovo's breakthrough organ printing technology while leading a team of top regenerative medicine scientists from multiple universities, with the backing of a $5MM National Science Foundation Grant.
Professor Forgacs is the author of more than 150 peer reviewed journal articles and the textbook Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo, (with Stuart Newman), published by Cambridge University Press.
He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from the Roland Eotvos University, Budapest Hungary. He moved to the United States in the 1980's from the Institute of Physics of the French Atomic Energy Agency in Saclay to accept a professorship at Clarkson University.
University of Missouri researcher doing groundbreaking work in regenerative medicine. Here is a video: