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Yong Zhao, MD, PhD

CEO and President

Dr. Zhao is an internationally acclaimed scientist and doctor who specializes in clinical immunology and stem cell biology, and received his post-doctoral training from the University of Chicago.

He is the first scientist to discover the cord blood stem cells (CB-SC) and is the inventor of Stem Cell Educator Therapy.

He has held academic and professorship positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Hackensack Meridian Health. He holds 9 patents and 62 publications.