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Michael D. West, Ph. D., is a molecular gerontologist and entrepreneur having founded 10 biotechnology companies and acted in senior management of six public companies.

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Dr. West is a founder and CEO of LifeCraft Sciences. He was the founder and CEO of AgeX Therapeutics (now Serina Therapeutics (NYSE: American: SER)). Prior to that, he was CEO of BioTime, Inc., (now Lineage Cell Therapeutics (NYSE American: LCTX)), and prior to that CEO of Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) (now Astellas Inst.

for Regenerative Medicine). Prior that, Dr. West was founder, director, and CEO, and CSO of Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN), where he pioneered and managed programs in telomere biology relating to aging and cancer, and founded the field of regenerative medicine by leading the first isolation of human pluripotent stem cells.

In their telomerase research, West and colleagues at Geron cloned the RNA component of telomerase and subsequently collaborated with Thomas Cech (winner of 1989 Nobel Prize in