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Dr. Lawrence Petz, Chief Medical Officer at Stemcyte®, Inc., receives Tibor Greenwalt Memorial Award and Lectureship | |||
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October 24, 2006 | StemCyte has now provided cord blood units to over 130 transplant centers worldwide across 6 continents, and the number of units released for transplantation is rapidly increasing. | ||
| ARCADIA, Calif. (October 24, 2006)- The AABB announced that Lawrence D. Petz, MD, chief medical officer at StemCyte, Inc., received the Tibor Greenwalt Memorial Award and Lectureship for 2006. According to the AABB, "This award recognizes an individual who made major scientific or clinical contributions to hematology and transfusion medicine and succinctly communicated these advances." Dr. Petz received the award at the AABB annual meeting in Miami, FL, which ends today.
"We are delighted that the AABB has bestowed this important honor upon Dr. Petz," says StemCyte's CEO Ken Giacin. "At StemCyte, we are extremely proud and fortunate that Dr. Petz continues to work with many of the world's leading transplant physicians and in helping our company establish an excellent record of transplantation success." Dr. Petz joined StemCyte in 2000 after serving as Director of Transfusion Medicine and Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at UCLA Medical Center. Prior to UCLA, Dr. Petz held a number of positions at the City of Hope National Medical Center, including Chairman of the Division of Medicine. 'We are very pleased with the growing vote of confidence that is being extended to StemCyte by transplant physicians around the world,' said Lawrence D. Petz, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, StemCyte International Cord Blood Center, and Emeritus Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA Medical Center. 'Our consistently excellent one-year patient survival data continue to point to both the increasing level of transplant physician care as well as to the high degree of efficacy of our cord blood units.' Dr. Petz is the author or editor of several well-known, authoritative textbooks, including Clinical Bone Marrow Transplantation, Clinical Practice of Transfusion Medicine, and the co-author of Immune Hemolytic Anemias. He has received some of the highest honors in transfusion medicine, including the Emily Cooley Award; the Morten Grove-Rasmussen Memorial Award; the Transfusion Medicine Academic Award from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; and the Owen Thomas Award from the California Blood Bank Society. Dr. Petz chairs StemCyte's prestigious Medical Advisory Board and also serves as executive editor of www.cordbloodforum.org. He is a founder and organizer of the annual International Symposium on Cord Blood Transplantation, held in Los Angeles, California, which brings together the leading physicians and scientists in the field from around the world. To find out more visit StemCyte online at www.stemcyte.com. |
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