Cord Blood America, Inc. (CBAI.OB), the umbilical cord blood banking company, reports that it has named Jack Goldberg, M.D., as Chairman of its Medical Advisory Board.
Dr. Goldberg served as medical director at CorCell, which is now a Cord Blood America subsidiary, since 1996. He also serves as the Chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Dr. Goldberg recently announced for Cord Blood America, the first known worldwide report of a girl with leukemia who was successfully transplanted with her own umbilical cord blood, which had been stored by CorCell. It was the first autologous cord blood transplant for childhood leukemia anywhere in the world.
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