Professor Dame Julia M. Polak, FMedSci, DBE (b. 1939, Argentina) and was educated at the University of Buenos Aires, before moving to London. She is married to Professor Daniel Catovsky, and has three children. Prof. Polak is one of the longest surviving recipients of a heart and lung transplant in the United Kingdom. It was her transplant in 1995 which caused her to change her career direction from Pathology towards the newly developing field of Tissue Engineering. Wikipedia
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Julia Polak was born and grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and qualified as a medical doctor there in 1961. After her basic medical qualification, she specialised in pathology. With her husband and young daughter she moved to London in 1968. She init jcs.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/117/22/5195
Professor Dame Julia Polak MD DSc FRCPath FMEDSci, was the Director of the Imperial College Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Centre and is now an Emeritus Professor of Imperial College. She is also, extraordinarily, one of the longest survivo www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/about/institutes/tissue/jpolak/
Professor Dame Julia Polak graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and obtained her postgraduate training in the UK. She became Professor and the Director of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Centre, Imperial College in 1997. www.novathera.com/team.htm
Professor Dame Julia Polak graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and obtained her postgraduate training in the UK. She became Professor and the Director of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Centre, Imperial College in 1997. www.terrapinn.com/2006/stemcells/SpeakerList.stm