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Coverage and appearances featuring Organamet Bio and our founder, Dr. Doris Taylor — a leading voice in regenerative cardiac medicine.

The Dispatch · Feature April 11, 2026

"Building a human heart in a lab could be just 2 years away"

Profiling Dr. Taylor's homecoming lecture at Mississippi University for Women, The Dispatch reports on her 21-year journey to bioengineer personalized hearts for transplant — and how, as CEO of Organamet Bio, she sees human trials approaching.

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Mississippi University for WomenApril 2026

Dr. Doris Taylor delivers the Nell Peel Wolfe Lecture

Returning to her alma mater, Dr. Taylor presented "Building Heart in 2026: What I Learned at The W and Beyond," tracing her path from The W to the frontier of regenerative medicine before a packed Nissan Auditorium during Homecoming.

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Medscape2025

On-demand "ghost organs" when transplant patients can't wait

Medscape examines the decellularization approach pioneered by Dr. Taylor and advanced by Organamet Bio — engineering patient-specific organ scaffolds to address the global transplant shortage.

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Bio-Techne · PodcastBack of the Napkin

"Doris Taylor: Building Heart"

On the "Back of the Napkin" podcast — inspiring stories from biotech pioneers — Dr. Taylor shares the origin and ambition behind building human hearts, and the vision driving Organamet Bio.

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The Cure GalaSept 27, 2025

A "ghost heart" takes the stage at The Cure Gala 2025

A bioengineered ghost-heart scaffold was showcased at The Cure Gala's live auction, spotlighting and helping fund the cutting-edge regenerative research led by Dr. Taylor.

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The Conversation · Fortune2023

Lab-grown "ghost hearts" and the future of transplantation

Widely syndicated coverage explains how a cleaned-out scaffold combined with a patient's own stem cells could solve the organ-transplant shortage — the science at the heart of Organamet's platform.

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RegMedNet · InterviewProfile

"Healing hearts and women in STEM"

An in-depth interview with Dr. Taylor on her scientific breakthroughs, the road to clinical translation, and championing women in science and engineering.

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Selected honors & recognition — Dr. Doris Taylor

TIME 100 nominee (2009)

Nominated as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

AHA "Top 10 Research Advance"

For pioneering perfusion decellularization, published in Nature Medicine.

Fellowships

Fellow of the AHA, ACC, and ESC; AIMBE Fellow (2020); Senior Member, National Academy of Inventors (2019).

Distinguished Alumnus

AASCU national Distinguished Alumnus Award (2016); honorary Doctor of Science, MUW.

Scientific firsts

First functional repair of an injured heart with stem cells (1998); first whole-organ decellularization (2008).

Founder

Co-founder of Miromatrix Medical and Organamet Bio; former Director, Center for Cell and Organ Biotechnology, Texas Heart Institute.