Pedro BaptistaDr. Pedro Baptista is originally from Portugal, where he graduated from the School of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon. He completed his doctoral dissertation at the Gulbenkian Ph.D. Program in Biomedicine. He is currently a Group Leader at the Halth Research Institute of Aragon in Zaragoza, Spain and the founder of the Organ Bioengineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at this institution. He is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical and Aerospace Engineering at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. He is one of the founders and the Deputy Chairman of the European Association for the Study of the Liver Consortium for Regenerative Hepatology and currently the Deputy Secretary General and an elected Board Governor of the European Society for Artificial Organs. His current research focuses on creating bioengineered livers that can finally make the long-term transplantation of these lab-grown organs a reality.Dr. Pedro Baptista is originally from Portugal, where he graduated from the School of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon. He completed his doctoral dissertation at the Gulbenkian Ph.D. Program in Biomedicine. He is currently a Group Leader at the Health Research Institute of Aragon in Zaragoza, Spain and the founder of the Organ Bioengineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at this institution. He is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical and Aerospace Engineering at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. He is one of the founders and the Deputy Chairman of the European Association for the Study of the Liver Consortium for Regenerative Hepatology and currently the Deputy Secretary General and an elected Board Governor of the European Society for Artificial Organs. His current research focuses on creating bioengineered livers that can finally make the long-term transplantation of these lab-grown organs a reality. Read More Read Less