Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM)

An ear grown in the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) lab.

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) is recognized as an international leader in translating scientific discovery into clinical therapies. Physicians and scientists at WFIRM were the first in the world to engineer laboratory-grown organs that were successfully implanted into humans. Today, this team is working on engineering more than 40 different replacement tissues and organs and developing healing cell therapies—all with the goal of curing, not just treating, disease.