Robert Lanza, M.D.

Dr. Robert Lanza is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology and a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He has several hundred publications and inventions, and over two dozen scientific books: among them, Biocentrism (co-authored with astronomer Bob Berman), which lays out the full scientific augment for his theory of everything. Others include One World: The Health & Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century (Foreword by President Jimmy Carter), and Principles of Tissue Engineering and Essentials of Stem Cell Biology, which are considered the definitive references in the field. Dr. Lanza received his BA and MD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was both a University Scholar and Benjamin Franklin Scholar.

Lanza was a Fulbright Scholar, and was part of the team that cloned the world's first human embryo, as well as the first to clone an endangered species, to demonstrate that nuclear transfer could reverse the aging process, and to generate stem cells using a method that does not require the destruction of human embryos. Dr. Lanza and his colleagues recently published the first-ever report of the medical use of human embryonic stem cells transplanted into human patients. The patients who received the stem cell transplants for macular degeneration say their lives have been transformed by the procedure.

Dr. Lanza was awarded the 2010 NIH Director's Award, the 2006 "All Star" Award for Biotechnology, and the 2005 Rave Award for Medicine by Wired Magazine. Dr. Lanza and his research have been featured in almost every media outlet in the world, including all the major TV networks, CNN, TIME, Newsweek, People Magazine, as well as the front pages of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today, among others. Lanza has worked with some of the greatest thinkers of our time, including Nobel laureates Gerald Edelman and Rodney Porter. Lanza worked closely with B.F. Skinner at Harvard University. Lanza and Skinner (the "Father of modern behaviorism") published a number of scientific papers together. He has also worked with Jonas Salk (discoverer of the Polio vaccine) and heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard.

Websites:  www.robertlanza.com and www.robertlanzabiocentrism.com.  Follow me on twitter @robertlanza. More books can be found at http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Lanza/e/B004NDEASI