Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Toshio Miki is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He has received his MD and PhD degrees from Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. With the goal of overcoming the organ shortage faced by patients awaiting liver transplants, he started studying Xenotransplantation and Hepatocyte Transplantation. In his search for alternative cell sources for hepatocyte transplantation, he discovered stem cell-like populations in the human amnion in the year 2005. Since then, he has been best-known for his studies of placental stem cells and their clinical applications.