Charles Vacanti

Charles A. Vacanti
Born	Omaha, Nebraska
Other names	Chuck
Residence	Uxbridge, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Fields	Tissue engineering, anesthesiology, stem cells
Institutions	Brigham and Women's Hospital (retired), Harvard Medical School
Alma mater	Creighton University, University of Nebraska College of Medicine
Notable students	Haruko Obokata
Known for	Vacanti mouse, STAP cells
Spouse	Linda
Website Brigham and Women's profile

Charles Alfred Vacanti (born 1949/50, also known as Chuck) is an American researcher in tissue engineering and stem cells and the Vandam/Covino Professor of Anesthesiology, Emeritus, at Harvard Medical School. He is a former head of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Massachusetts and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, now retired.

He is known for the Vacanti mouse, a mouse created with Linda Griffith and Joseph Upton with cartilage shaped like a human ear on its back, and for being the senior author on the first of two retracted articles on STAP cells, a concept proposed by his brother and himself, and co-authored with Haruko Obokata.

Vacanti gained his B.A. from Creighton University in 1968 and his M.D. from University of Nebraska College of Medicine in 1975, and then completed his surgical intern and residency at Medical Center Hospital of Vermont (now called the University of Vermont Medical Center) in 1978. With his brothers, he was named Alumnus of the Year in 2002 and received an Alumni Achievement Citation from Creighton in 2005.

Vacanti was a research associate at MIT and the Children's Hospital Boston, and an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. He became chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and a Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha in 2002.

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