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In 2000, Mr. Melber experienced a heart attack that resulted in repeated hospital stays. By 2004, he had more than 30 stents placed in his heart. When he was accepted into an adult stem cell clinical trial in 2006, run … Continue reading →

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi is an Italian prelate, a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves in the Roman Curia as president of the Pontifical Council for Culture. He attended the seminary of Milan, and was ordained as a … Continue reading →

Dr. Chugh completed his internship in Internal Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center followed by a residency at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. Thereafter, Dr. Chugh pursued a specialty fellowship in Hypertensive Diseases at the University … Continue reading →

Currently, Dr. Caplan is the Emanuel and Robert Hart Director of the Center for Bioethics and the Sidney Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Prior to coming to the University of Pennsylvania in 1994, Caplan … Continue reading →

Dr. Cernera is currently serving his second term as president of the International Federation of Catholic Universities, the oldest and largest international association of Catholic universities. He is also a professor of theology and former president of Sacred Heart University. … Continue reading →

Dr. Atala is the director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the W.H. Boyce Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest University. Dr. Atala is a practicing surgeon and a researcher in the … Continue reading →

Dr. Pecora is the chief medical officer of NeoStem, Inc. Leading up to its merger with NeoStem, Dr. Pecora was the chairman and chief executive officer for Progenitor Cell Therapy, LLC (PCT), now a wholly owned subsidiary of NeoStem. He … Continue reading →