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Robert Lanza, MD

• Lanza Featured in Fortune Magazine

  “…he’s the standard-bearer for stem cell research”

  “Lanza published a paper in The Lancet earlier this year detailing the results of early clinical trials involving two women suffering from macular degeneration. A UCLA ophthalmologist
  
  injected each woman with 50,000 retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, and according to the paper, both claim to have better vision as a result. They’re not 20/20. But after a single injection one now walks the mall alone, uses her computer, and can pour a cup of coffee. The other sees colors and can read five letters on the eye chart. If Lanza is remembered one day as the man who saved millions from blindness, his story will provide a ready-made biopic for Ben Affleck. Born in the hardscrabble town of Roxbury and raised by a professional gambler, he escaped the economic underclass through intelligence and imagination. At 13, he altered the DNA of a chicken to make it change color; the experiment was published in Nature. His sisters never graduated from high school. He received an MD from Penn and a Fulbright scholarship, and has collaborated with giants, including B.F. Skinner and Jonas Salk. He was the first ever to clone an endangered species, and now he’s the standard-bearer for stem cell research.”

   

   

• Lanza Voted Top 4 “Most Influential People on Stem Cells”
  
  Lanza featured in the 2013 “TOP 50 Global Stem Cell Influencers.” It is the result of a global survey of the stem cell community, which yielded thousands of votes. The 50 personalities were picked based on their career achievements whether this was groundbreaking discovery and research, innovation, or lifetime dedication. Lanza was among the top four on the list, alongside James Thomson and Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka.

   

   

 
Previous News

• Dr. Robert Lanza Featured on ABC’s Barbara Walters Special

  
  Robert Lanza featured on “Live to be 150, Can You Do It?”.

  by ABC News

• DISCOVER Interview: Robert Lanza

  
  Growing new body parts, reversing paralysis, stretching the limits of the human life span: This trailblazing stem cell researcher believes it is all within our reach.

  Discover Magazine

• Biocentrism / Robert Lanza’s Theory of Everything

  
  BIOCENTRISM

  How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe

  “Like “A Brief History of Time” it is indeed stimulating and brings biology into the whole. Any short statement does not do justice to such a scholarly work. Almost every society of mankind has explained the mystery of our surroundings and being by invoking a god or group of gods. Scientists work to acquire objective answers from the infinity of space or the inner machinery of the atom. Lanza proposes a biocentrist theory which ascribes the answer to the observer rather than the observed. The work is a scholarly consideration of science and philosophy that brings biology into the central role in unifying the whole. The book will appeal to an audience of many different disciplines because it is a new way of looking at the old problem of our existence. Most importantly, it makes you think.”
      – Nobel Prize Winner E. Donnall Thomas

• The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself

  
  The Biocentric Universe Theory: Stem-cell guru Robert Lanza presents a radical new view of the universe and everything in it.

  Discover Magazine

• Lanza’s Research Featured on the Cover of U.S. News & World Report

  
  Lanza’s team cloned the first human embryo. How American scientists made history by creating lifesaving embryos cells.

  U.S. News & World Report

• Lanza’s Team Clones First Endangered Species

  
  Endangered Species Cloned

  Newsweek

• Lanza Receives “Rave Award” for Medicine

  
  Robert Lanza Receives Award for Eye-Opening Work on Embryonic Stem Cells

  Wired Magazine

• Robert Lanza Featured in People Magazine

  
  Send in the Clones. Biologist Robert Lanza has a plan to help endangered species fight extinction.

  People Magazine

• Lanza’s Research Featured on Front Page of New York Times

  
  Biologists have developed a technique for establishing colonies of human embryonic stem cells from an early human embryo without destroying it.

  New York Times

• Robert Lanza Featured on Front Page of New York Times

  
  Stem Cell Test Tried on Mice Saves Embryo. Technique Could Shift Debate on Humans.

  New York Times

• A New Theory of the Universe

  
  A New Theory of the Universe: Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by adding life to the equation.

  The American Scholar

• Featured on the Cover of Wired Magazine

  
  Seven Days of Creation. The inside story of a human cloning experiment.

  Wired Magazine
  

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  U.S. News & World Report Cover Story

  “…his mentors described him [Lanza] as a “genius,” a “renegade” thinker, even likening him to Einstein.”

  
  “Robert Lanza is the living embodiment of the character played by Matt Damon in the movie Good Will Hunting. Growing up underprivileged in Stoughton, Mass., south of Boston, the young preteen caught the attention of Harvard Medical School researchers when he showed up on the university steps having successfully altered the genetics of chickens in his basement. Over the next decade, he was to be “discovered” and taken under the wing of scientific giants such as psychologist B. F. Skinner, immunologist Jonas Salk, and heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard. His mentors described him as a “genius,” a “renegade” thinker, even likening him to Einstein.”

   

Research with B. F. Skinner
“The Father of Modern Behavorism”

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  Most Prominent Psychologists

  (Citations Per Scholar)

  Freud	318
  Skinner	140
  Piaget	107
  Rogers	100
  Pavlov	85

• Symbolic Communication Between Two Pigeons

  
  SCIENCE 207; 543 (1980)
  Lanza (with Skinner & Epstein)

• “Self-Awareness” in the Pigeon

  
  SCIENCE 212; 695 (1981)
  Lanza (with Skinner & Epstein)

• “Lying” in the Pigeon

  
  Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 38; 201 (1982)
  Lanza (with Skinner & Starr)

• Lanza & Skinner’s Work Featured in TIME Magazine

  
  Pigeon Talk − A triumph for bird brains
  TIME Magazine

• Lanza & Skinner’s Work on Symbolic Communication Featured in New York Times

  
  Pigeons’ ‘Conversation’ Triggers a Debate About Language
  New York Times

• Lanza & Skinner’s Work on Self-Awareness in New York Times

  
  Science Watch: ‘Self-Awareness’ in Animals
  New York Times

• Lanza and Skinner’s Work Featured in My Weekly Reader

  
  Pigeons Punch Buttons. Talking or Training?
  My Weekly Reader

Research with Jonas Salk and Christiaan Barnard

• Work with Jonas Salk

  
  Developed Polio Vaccine

  J. Supramol. Struct 182;33 (1979)
  Lanza (with Salk)

• Work with Christiaan Barnard

  
  Performed the World’s First Heart Transplant

  New England Journal of Medicine 307; 1275 (1983)
  Lanza (with Barnard & Cooper)

  JAMA 249; 1746 (1983)
  Lanza (with Barnard, Cooper & Cassidy)

  American Heart Journal 107; 8 (1984)
  Lanza (with Barnard, Cooper & Boyd)

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