Lynn Allen-Hoffmann

Lynn Allen-Hoffmann is a pathologist, CEO and trailblazer. She is the first female UW faculty member to start a biotech company, Stratatech Corporation. In 1996 she made a remarkable discovery – a line of extraordinarily long-lived skin cells called keratinocytes obtained from discarded foreskin tissue. Even more interestingly, she found that the cells could be engineered into living tissue almost...

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