Graca Almeida-Porada, MD, PhD

Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Graça Almeida-Porada, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Regenerative Medicine and the Director of the Fetal Research and Therapy Program at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.  Dr. Almeida-Porada’s research focuses on the development of cellular and gene delivery platforms to treat genetic and immune-mediated diseases.  She is particularly interested  in improving the outcome of stem cell transplantation and gene therapy in fetal and neonatal patients with genetic disorders,  and in developing  therapies for children with immune-mediated diseases.

She has been a member of several NIH study sections, she serves as an Editor, or on the Editorial Boards, of several scientific journals, she is the co-editor-in-chief of Current Stem Cell Reports. She was inducted into Phi Beta Delta in 2006.  She is the co-founder of the International Fetal Transplantation and Immunology Society. Dr. Almeida-Porada holds several patents and has authored more than 200 scientific works including papers, abstracts, and book chapters.