Research Fellowship in Organ Regeneration and Replacement
compensatedFully funded research position in organ regeneration at Vanderbilt University (2 years)
Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to inform you of a fully funded two-year research position open for this upcoming academic
year (July 2021) at Vanderbilt University Med Center (VUMC). We are seeking a highly talented and
motivated surgical resident to join the Laboratory for Organ Recovery, Regeneration and Replacement.
Our team focuses on developing the next generation of extracorporeal support technologies and whole
organ bioengineering for lung and liver regeneration, including translational models for transplantation.
The lab also has NIH funded research in artificial lung development in an ovine model with a
translational goal of developing an ambulatory pulmonary assist device. This research position involves
porcine and ovine surgery as well as the regeneration of rejected human organs using a xenogeneic
model of organ support. The position is based at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the
Department of Surgical Sciences with collaborative work with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University
and Columbia University. Previous surgical residents have been instrumental to this group and have
been extremely productive, successful academically and gone on to secure highly coveted clinical
fellowships. Their work has been published in Nature Medicine, Nature Communications, Journal of
Heart and Lung Transplantation and more.
If you have a resident who is looking for such an opportunity, please contact us, or our current research
fellows, Kelly Wu, MD (Kelly.wu@vumc.org), John Stokes, MD (john.w.stokes@vumc.org) or postdoctoral
fellow Rei Ukita, PhD, (rei.ukita@vumc.org).
Sincerely,
Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, MA
H. William Scott, Jr Chair in Surgery#2
Associate Chair, Department of Thoracic Surgery
Surgical Director, Vanderbilt Lung Institute
Director, Laboratory for Organ Recovery, Regeneration, and Replacement
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
609 Oxford House
1313 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37232
615-322-0248
matthew.bacchetta@vumc.org
Sophoclis P. Alexopoulos, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery
and Liver Transplantation
sopho.alexopoulos@vumc.org