Dr. Maria Millan joined StemCells, Inc. in January 2006 and was promoted to Vice President, Head of the Liver Program in December 2006. She is responsible for managing the pre-clinical and clinical development programs for liver indications. Dr. Millan is also serving as the Company's Acting Chief Medical Officer. She is on leave from her positions as Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Multi-Organ Transplant, and Director of Pediatric Transplant Programs, Kidney & Liver, at Stanford University School of Medicine. She received her M.D. from the New Jersey Medical School and was a Resident and Chief Resident in General Surgery at Harvard Medical School/New England Deaconess Hospital and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Mass. She received a research fellowship in Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School, and held a Fellowship in Multi-Organ Transplant Surgery at Stanford Medical School. |