Anthony Atala is Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina. Dr. Atala has participated in the 2011 TED Conference and his work was covered by the New York Times and the New Yorker. He has also been featured in Esquire, U.S. News and World Report and Time magazine. He has appeared on Charlie Rose, 60 Minutes and other TV programs.