Michael West Biography

Michael D. West is a pioneer in stem cells cellular aging and telomere research. He is the founder and CEO of AgeX which provide regenerative medicine clinical trials. Dr. West joined AgeX's parent company BioTime as CEO in 2007 and he continues to serve as the company's co-CEO while devoting 80% of his time to AgeX. In 2014 he served as CEO of Asterias Biotherapeutics. From 1998 to 2007 he served as CEO president and chief scientific officer of Advanced Cell Technology which as Ocata Therapeutics was acquired by Astellas Pharma of Japan in early 2016. In 1990 Dr. West founded Geron Corp one of the first regenerative medicine companies with backing from venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Venrock and others. For the company s scientific team he recruited Drs. Elizabeth Blackburn Carol Greider and Jack Szostak who collectively went on to win the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. While at Geron Dr. West also created the research consortium with James Thomson and John Gearhart that led to the first isolation of human embryonic stem cells.

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