Key Staff and Researchers

Director - Professor Dr Patrick Warnke
Professor Dr. Patrick Warnke is an internationally-renowned stem cell researcher and maxillofacial and plastic/reconstructive surgeon who created world headlines after leading a research team that succeeded in 'growing' a new jawbone in the back for a cancer sufferer for subsequent transplantation into the defect site. This technique now called ENDOCULTIVATION, uses the patient's own stem cells and methods of tissue engineering. Professor Warnke’s focus, with extensive medical plus dental specialist training and research experience, is to bring the “bench-to-bedside”, that is, to translate laboratory research into real-life applications in the clinics where the ultimate benefit is that of the patient.

In 2007, Professor Warnke launched the revolutionary MyJoint program for the European Union – an international cutting edge tissue engineering network comprising researchers and practitioners from leading institutions worldwide who are focussed on developing technologies that will enable patients to use their own bodies as "bio-reactors" to grow biological replacement joints and organs.

Today, heavily networked with other specialists in the field, constantly updated by contributing and attending international and local conferences, and funded by the prestigious Clem Jones Estate, Professor Warnke”s exceptional research team has further gathered momentum on top of his previous stem cell-derived tissue engineering achievements and is developing stem cell-derived solutions including adult induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) in concert with nanotechnology for sufferers of Macular Degeneration, Skin Cancer, Nerve Damage and more.
 

• Researcher - Assistant Professor Qin Liu
  
• Project Manager - Dr Sebastien Stephens
  
• Snr Research Assist - Stuart Skabo
  
• PhD Candidate - Mohammad Alamein