Stanford University
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USA
Presenter: Nelson Jen An Chao, MD, MBA
Chief, Division of Cell Therapy
Duke University
Nelson J. Chao, MD, MBA, is the Donald D. and Elizabeth G. Cooke Professor in Cancer Research and Professor of Medicine and Immunology and the Chief of the Division of Hematological Malignancies and the Division of Cellular Therapy/BMT at Duke University. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, MD from Yale University and his post-graduate training at Stanford University. He was the Associate Director of Stem Cell Transplantation at Stanford University prior to moving to Duke University in 1996 as the Director of the Bone Marrow Transplantation Program. The program was renamed as the Division of Cellular Therapy/BMT. He is also the Co-Director of the Clinical Stem Cell Transplantation Laboratory and continues to direct his own research laboratory focused on understanding and preventing graft-versus-host disease and improving immune reconstitution. He is also the Director of Global Cancer for the Duke Cancer Institute and the Duke Global Health Institute. In 2012, he has also become the Chief of the Division of Hematological Malignancies.
Dr. Chao obtained his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in 2000. He is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed papers, 25 book chapters and one book. He is also a co-founder of two start up biotechnology companies in Research Triangle Park, Aldagen and C2 Regenerate. Nationally, he is the co-chair of the Radiation Injury Treatment Network (RITN) and the Principal Investigator for a Program Project Grant in stem cell transplantation and the Center for Medical Countermeasures against Radiation.