These esteemed advisors guide StemCyte in becoming the standard in the industry for cord blood banking.

Medical Advisory Board

Richard Champlin, M.D.

Chairman, Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation Robert C. Hickey Chair in Clinical Cancer Care Associate Head, Hematology, Division of Medicine University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Co-editor of a comprehensive textbook on transplantation:
Clinical Bone Marrow and Blood Stem Cell Transplantation, Third edition. Atkinson K, Champlin R, Ritz J, Fibbe WE, Ljungman P, Brenner MK, editors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004, 1968 pp.


Marcos De Lima, M.D.

Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas


Stephen Forman, M.D.

Director, Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine University of Southern California School of Medicine Department of Hematology
Co-edited Thomas'' Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, 3rd edition. Blume KG, Forman SJ, Appelbaum FR, editors. Blackwell Publishing, Inc. Williston, VT, 2004,1563 pp.


Michael Graham, M.D.

Department of Pediatrics University Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona


Dr. Jill Hows

The Leukaemia Lifeline Centre Department of Transplantation Sciences Southmead Hospital Westbury-on-Trym Bristol BS10 5NB United Kingdom


Steven Kleinman, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada Transfusion Medicine Consultant to National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Retrovirus Epidemiology Donor Study
Consultant to blood collection agencies, hospitals, government and industry.


Mary Laughlin, M.D.

Allogeneic Transplant Program Ireland Cancer Center Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Co-editor of text book on stem cell transplantation, Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation, Laughlin MJ, Lazarus HM. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2003, 454 pp.


Bertram Lubin, M.D.

Children''s Hospital Oakland Research Institute Oakland, California


Auayporn P. Nadamanee, M.D.

Associate Director, Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation Director, Allogeneic Transplant Program City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California


Robertson Parkman, M.D.

Director of Research Immunology Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation Children''s Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California


Professor Lawrence D. Petz, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer, StemCyte International Cord Blood Center Emeritus Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Former Director of Transfusion Medicine, UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles, California


Joseph Rosenthal, M.D.

Director, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California


David Senitzer, Ph.D.

Director, Histocompatibility Laboratory City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California


Elizabeth J. Shpall, M.D.

Director of Cord Blood Transplant Program Department of Blood and Marrow Transplantation MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas


E. Richard Steihm, M.D.

Professor and Vice Chair Head, Division of Allergy and Immunology Department of Pediatrics UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California


Mark Walters, M.D.

Children''s Hospital Oakland Research Institute Oakland, California


John Zaia, M.D.

Director, Department of Virology Head, Virology and Infectious Diseases Department of Pediatrics Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope Duarte, California

Scientific Advisory Board

Stephen J. Forman, MD, Chairman
City of Hope Medical Center

Francis and Kathleen McNamara Distinguished Chair in Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Chair, Division of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Program Leader, Hematologic Neoplasia Program
Clinical Director, Division of Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Tumor Immunology
Staff Physician, Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research

Richard J. O'Reilly, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Chief, Bone Marrow Transplant Service
Claire L. Tow Chair in Pediatric Oncology Research

Robertson Parkman, MD
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles

Division of Research Immunology/Bone Marrow Transplant
Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology

StemCyte's cord blood units are currently being used to treat two to three patients per week worldwide who suffer from a variety of blood cancers and immune and genetic disorders.