Petz Lawrence
StemCyte, Inc USA
Biography
Petz Lawrence serves as Chief Medical Officer of StemCyte, Inc. He serves as a Co-Medical Director of StemCyte International Cord Blood Center (US) of StemCyte, Inc. He is a founder and organizer of the annual International Symposium on Cord Blood Transplantation. He served as a Director of Transfusion Medicine and Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of UCLA Medical Center. He served as Section Head of Hematology and Director of the Department of Clinical and Experimental Immunology of City of Hope National Medical Center. He served as Chairman of Advisory Board of StemCyte, Inc. He has received almost all the highest honors in transfusion medicine, including the Emily Cooley Award and Morten Grove-Rasmussen Memorial Award from the American Association of Blood Banks, the Transfusion Medicine Academic Award from National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the Owen Thomas Award from the California Blood Bank Society. He received Tibor Greenwalt Memorial Award and Lectureship for 2006. He is a Diplomate in Internal Medicine and subspecialty board Diplomate in Hematology.
Abstract
Abstract : Progress toward curing HIV with cord blood transplantation