ViaCell’s medical and scientific board provides specific expertise in areas of research and development relevant to our business and meets with our scientific and management personnel to discuss our present and long-term research and development activities. Our medical and scientific advisory board members include:
Barbara Bierer
George Daley
Graham Molineaux
Bertram H. Lubin
Leonard I. Zon
Barbara E. Bierer, M.D.
Dr. Bierer has been a member of our Board of Directors since June 2005 and has served as a member of our medical and scientific advisory boards since 2001. Dr. Bierer is Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and currently Senior Vice President for Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a position she has held since July 2003. From 1997 until 2002, she was the Chief of the Laboratory of Lymphocyte Biology at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD. She also served as the Director of Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and The Children's Hospital in Boston from 1992 until 1997. Dr. Bierer specializes in immunology and stem cell transplantation, is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine with subspecialties in Medical Oncology and in Hematology. Dr. Bierer has a M.S. degree from Yale College and an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School.
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George Daley, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Daley has been one of our scientific consultants since 1998 and Co-Chairman of our medical and scientific advisory board since 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston and the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School. Previously, Dr. Daley was a Whitehead Fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and an Assistant Professor of Medicine and staff member in Hematology/Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1995 to 2003. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Hematology. Dr. Daley has a Bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Harvard University, a Ph.D. in Biology from MIT and an M.D. summa cum laude from Harvard University.
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Graham Molineaux, Ph.D.
Dr. Molineux has been a scientific advisor since November 2005. He is currently Director of Hematology and Oncology Research at Amgen Inc. Before joining Amgen in 1994 he spent nearly twenty years at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research at Christie Hospital in Manchester, England. He trained at University of Manchester specializing in stem cell biology. Dr. Molineux received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, a MS in Experimental Immunology and Oncology and a BSc from Liverpool University.
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Bertram H. Lubin, M.D.
Dr. Lubin has been a scientific advisor since August 2006. He is currently President of Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) and an Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. Over the past 35 years he has been involved in a number of clinical and basic research projects including work in the area of sickle cell disease and thalassemia at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Children's Hospital Oakland. He started the first sibling donor cord blood program in the world and serves on a number of national committees related to cord blood banking. Dr. Lubin received his M.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, his Pediatric training at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he was Assistant Chief Resident, and completed a fellowship in hematology/oncology at Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston. He was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Sickle Cell Program prior to moving to Children’s Hospital Oakland.
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Leonard I. Zon, M.D.
Dr. Zon is an attending physician in hematology at Children's Hospital Boston and in Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is an Associate in Medicine-Hematology/ Oncology, at Children's Hospital and Professor of Pediatric Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also an Investigator for Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Zon is board certified in Medical Oncology and Hematology. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry and Natural Sciences from Muhlenberg College and an M.D. degree from Jefferson Medical College. He subsequently did an internal medicine residency at New England Deaconess Hospital and a fellowship in medical oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. His postdoctoral research was in the laboratory of Stuart Orkin.
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