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Dr. Michael D. West is the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Scientific Officer, and former CEO of Advanced Cell Technology Corporation, which specializes in Stem Cell research. Dr. West was the founder of Geron Corporation and served as its Director and Senior Executive Officer from 1990 to 1998. Dr. West's 2003 book The Immortal Cell (ISBN 0385509286) tells his personal story of his religious, business and scientific struggles to deal with the problem of human aging.
He was the first person to clone human embryos and grow them to the six-cell stage.