Laura Niklason, PhD, MD
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Professor Adjunct
Division Chief; Vice Chair, ResearchBiography
Dr. Niklason is the Nicholas M. Greene Professor at Yale University in Anesthesia and Biomedical Engineering, where she has been on faculty since 2006. Dr. Niklason’s research focuses primarily on regenerative strategies for cardiovascular and lung tissues. Niklason’s engineered blood vessels are currently in clinical trials, and are the first life-sustaining engineered tissue to be studied in any Phase III trial. Niklason’s lab was also one of the first to describe the engineering of whole lung tissue that could exchange gas in vivo, and this work was cited in 2010 as one of the top 50 most important inventions of the year by Time Magazine. She was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors in 2014, and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015.
Niklason received her PhD in Biophysics from the University of Chicago, and her MD from the University of Michigan. She completed her residency training in anesthesia and intensive care unit medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and completed post-doctoral scientific training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Appointments
Anesthesiology
Professor AdjunctPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Anesthesiology
- NIH T32 Program
- Niklason Lab
- Yale Stem Cell Center
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- Fellow
- Mass General Hospital (1996)
- Resident
- Mass General Hospital (1995)
- Intern
- University of Michigan (1992)
- MD
- University of Michigan/Ann Arbor (1991)
- PhD
- University of Chicago (1988)
Board Certifications
Critical Care Medicine Anesthesiology
- Certification Organization
- AB of Anesthesiology
- Original Certification Date
- 1999
Anesthesiology
- Certification Organization
- AB of Anesthesiology
- Original Certification Date
- 1998
Research
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
Links & Media
News
- May 19, 2022
A Celebration of Student Research and Faculty Mentorship
- November 15, 2021
Yale Investigators Form Team to Develop Therapies for Devastating Kidney Disease
- September 29, 2020
Yale Department of Anesthesiology 5th Annual Celebration of Research 2020
- April 16, 2020
Sharing a Ventilator, Sparing a Life: Two Yale Groups Create Different Ways To Maximize Ventilator Capacity in a Crisis