The University of Florida’s Training Program in Regenerative Medicine is an NIH-funded, University-supported endeavor to train Ph.D. students and Postdoctoral Fellows in the mechanisms & potential of applying stem cell biology to the treatment of human disease.

Program Overview

The training program leverages the interdisciplinary nature of the University’s Health Science Center in its effort to develop trainees’ ability to translate regenerative medicine applications from the bench to the clinic. Faculty from 10 departments, mostly in the College of Medicine, participate as core mentors, and trainees in the program are at liberty to select mentors from this group or from the wider array of training grant mentors throughout the Health Science Center.

Meet the Program Director

As Program Director, Dr. Edward W. Scott guides the training program and plays a central role in designing the curriculum, selecting the trainees, and overseeing the program’s growth within the Molecular Genetics & Microbiology environment. Administrative decisions are made in concert with the Program Executive Committee, which comprises the Associate Director of the Training Program, Dr. Desmond Schatz, and two rotating faculty preceptors. Major decisions impacting the program’s character, along with regular program reviews, will be the province of the Program Advisory Committee, which includes leadership from the College and Deans of Medicine, along with external input from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the University of Louisville.

Executive Committee

	Name, Degree & Committee Role	Rank & Department	College
	Desmond Schatz, MD Associate Director	Professor of Pediatrics & Associate Chair of Research	Medicine
	Naohiro Terada, MD PhD Faculty Preceptor	Professor of Pathology	Medicine
	Christopher Cogle, MD Faculty Preceptor	Professor of Hematology/Oncology	Medicine

Advisory Committee

	Name, Degree & Committee Role	Rank & Organization	Institutional Affiliation
	Christopher Batich, PhD Internal Member	Professor of Materials Science & Executive Committee Member of the Clinical & Translational Science Institute	University of Florida
	Henry Baker, PhD Internal Member	Professor & Department Chair of Molecular Genetics	University of Florida
	Stephen Sugrue, PhD Internal Member	Senior Associate Dean of Research Affairs	University of Florida
	William Allen, JD Internal Member	Lawyer & Professor of Bioethics, Law & Medical Professionalism	University of Florida
	H. Leighton (Lee) Grimes, PhD External Member	Director of Cancer Pathology	Cincinnati Children's Hospital
	Mariusz Ratajczak, MD PhD External Member	Director of the Stem Cell Biology Program	University of Louisville