Shay Soker is a Professor of Regenerative Medicine and the Chief Science Program Officer at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He received his PhD from the Technion-Israel Institute for Technology, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Soker's research focuses on multiple aspects of regenerative medicine including identification of new sources of cells and scaffolds for tissue engineering, tissue neovascularization, real-time imaging technologies, and fabrication of bioengineered tissue equivalents (organoids) as developmental and disease models. He has authored over 227 publications with a total citation of 24,163 and an h-index of 76 (Scopus).