Doris Taylor, PhD, FAC, FAHA
Founder of Organamet Bio Inc.
Dr. Doris Taylor is a revolutionary innovator, scientist, entrepreneur, and global thought leader in regenerative medicine and biomanufacturing. Passionate to create cures for heart disease, which kills more people than any other disease and has an economic impact of 219 billion dollars annually, Doris lives her motto: “Build the future today – and do it with Heart”. Founder of Organamet Bio Inc., with a mission to cure heart disease and reduce healthcare costs, Taylor’s goal is to bioengineer safe, effective personalized replacement hearts that are available fairly and equitably (www.organametbio.com [organametbio.com]).
In 1998 Taylor pioneered the first functional repair of an injured heart with stem cells. In 2008 she developed perfusion decellularization, recognized as one of the “Top 10 Research Advances” by the American Heart Association, which transforms un-transplantable organs into a scaffold for building new organs using stem cells. After being nominated as one of the “100 most influential people in the world” by Time magazine Taylor turned to disease prevention and is developing “cellular signatures” of heart disease and aging.
Dr. Taylor proudly grew up in Mississippi, deeply impacted by ordinary people doing extraordinary things to change the world. She earned a B.S. from Mississippi University for Women (MUW) and a Ph.D. from UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas). Taylor is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and European Society for Cardiology, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by MUW, and the national Distinguished Alumnus Award by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. In 2019 she was elected as a Senior member of the National Academy of Inventors and, in 2020, as a fellow to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Taylor has sat on numerous think tanks and international scientific committees including at the NIH the FDA, AABB, the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine and the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI). She sat for almost 2 decades on the jury for the Institut de France LeFoulon-Delalande Foundation Grand Prix, awarded annually to individuals making worldwide contributions to cardiovascular medicine. Dr. Taylor appears as an expert on cell therapy, women’s health, cardiac repair and organ transplantation in the public media and her work is recognized and featured in most worldwide media outlets.