When faced with a thorny medical problem, Jeffrey Karp, HMS associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and his students sometimes head to Franklin Park Zoo or the New England Aquarium because animal life is a big source of inspiration for Karp and his colleagues at the center on regenerative therapeutics he runs. Robert S. Langer, HMS senior lecturer on surgery and Mehmet Toner, the Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, are also quoted.
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