Mahmood S. Choudhery is a Tenured Associate Professor currently working at the University of Health Sciences, Lahore. He also worked as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, working at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at King Edward Medical University. He received his BSc (Hons) from Punjab University and worked for his PhD at the National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), Punjab University, and the University of Arizona, USA. He continued his research on stem cells at the University of Arizona in Dr. Harris's Laboratory. At King Edward Medical University, along with teaching, he researched stem-cell-based regenerative therapies. Currently, he is working on stem cells, regenerative medicine, and gene editing. He is an editorial board member of several international journals of high repute and has published his research work in many leading journals.
David Thomas Harris is a graduate of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he obtained Bachelor of Science degrees (cum laude) in Biology, Mathematics, and Psychology in 1978. He earned a Master of Medical Sciences (summa cum laude) from Bowman Gray Medical School in 1980 and his Doctorate in Microbiology and Immunology (magna cum laude) from Bowman Gray Medical School in 1982. From 1982 to 1985, he was a Post-doctorate Fellow at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 1985, he joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine. In 1989, he joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in Tucson as an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology. In 1996, he was promoted to Professor of Immunology. He established the first cord blood bank in the USA in 1992. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the University of Arizona Biorepository, Quality Director of the GMP Laboratory. He is a member of the Arizona Cancer Center, a member of the Children’s Research Center, and a member of the Arizona Arthritis Center. His research interests include stem cells and regenerative medicine, cancer research/stem cell transplantation, and gene therapy.
