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Ann Tsukamoto, Ph.D.
Vice President of Research and Development
StemCells, Inc.
Ann Tsukamoto, Ph.D., is the Company's Vice President of Research and Development. Dr. Tsukamoto was a co-discoverer of the human hematopoietic stem cell while at SyStemix, Inc. and played a leading role in the launch of the clinical research program for the hematopoietic stem cell. Under her direction at StemCells Inc., the scientific team has discovered the human central nervous system stem cell and candidate stem cells for the liver and pancreas. Dr. Tsukamoto received her Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and did postdoctoral research with Dr. Harold Varmus at the University of California, San Francisco where she worked on the wnt-1 gene; a key player in the stem cell self-renewal pathway. Dr. Tsukamoto is an inventor on six issued U.S. Patents related to the human hematopoietic stem cell.