Organizing Committee Member
Peter K. Law
Professor
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
China
Biography
Peter K. Law has been a Canadian citizen and was a US permanent resident, with B.Sc (Hons.) from McGILL University, M.Sc., Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and post-doctorate from McMaster University. He was an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Vanderbilt University, Associate and Full Professor with tenure of Neurology and Physiology/ Biophysics at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. In 1991, he founded the non-profit Cell Therapy Research Foundation in USA to focus on clinical trials on muscular dystrophy (MD) using myoblasts. Upon the recommendation of the Chinese Consulate General in Toronto in year 2009, he was received by the Chairmen ,Prime Ministers and other leaders of China. He founded the Cell Therapy Institute in Wuhan and have been a scholar of the China 1000 Plan and Wuhan 3551 Program.He has been an invited speaker to national academies, health ministries, universities, The White House, The Kremlin and pharmaceutical companies. He reviewed grants for NIH, NSF and others. He has been an editor-in-chief, sectional editor-in-chief and a manuscript reviewer for reputable journals. He chaired many scientific sessions in international conferences, and various committees in the University Senate.
Research Area
cell therapy,genome therapy, angiomyogenic cell therapies to treat debilitating and fatal diseases such as muscular dystrophies, cancer, heart diseases, Type II diabetes and aging. He pioneered and hold world patents on the Human Myoblast Genome Therapy, a platform technology in Regenerative Medicine.