Michael Longaker

Michael T. Longaker is an American medical researcher and board-certified plastic surgeon. He has been a member of the Stanford Diabetes Research Center since 2018. He is the Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and by courtesy a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.^[2]

Michael T. Longaker
Awards	Society of University Surgeons Lifetime Achievement Award[1]
Scientific career
Institutions	Stanford Diabetes Research Center (2018-)

He is a co-founder of the medical research venture capital fund TauTona Group, as well as of biotechnology companies Arresto Biosciences and Neodyne Biosciences.^[3]

Education

Longaker attended Michigan State University and Harvard Medical School. After obtaining degrees at both schools, he went on to become a resident at the University of California, San Francisco. He studied wound healing in the unborn fetus under Michael R. Harrison.^[4]

At Michigan State, he was on the 1977-78, 1978-79, and 1979–80 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, where he played as a guard.^[5][6]

Career

Longaker has worked in research on organ development,^[7] but has been more involved in the science of wound healing^[8][9] since the 1990s.^[10][11]