Michael West biography
Dr. Michael D. West Ph.D. serves as Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Director of the Company. Dr. West was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (formerly BioTime, Inc.) during October 2007 and then served as Co-Chief Executive Officer from October 2015 until September 2018. Dr. West also served as interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc. from April 2014 to June 2014, and as Vice President of Technology Integration of Asterias until December 2015. Dr. West served as a director of: Lineage from 2002 until September 2018; Asterias from 2012 until September 2018; and OncoCyte Corporation from 2013 to 2016. Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer of Lineage, Dr. West served as Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chief Scientific Officer of Ocata Therapeutics, Inc., a company engaged in developing human stem cell technology for use in regenerative medicine. Dr. West also founded Geron Corporation of Menlo Park, California, and from 1990 to 1998, he was a Director and Vice-President, where he initiated and managed programs in telomerase diagnostics, oligonucleotide-based telomerase inhibition as anti-tumor therapy, and the cloning and use of telomerase in telomerase-mediated therapy wherein telomerase is utilized to immortalize human cells. From 1995 to 1998 he organized and managed the research between Geron and its academic collaborators, James Thomson and John Gearhart, which led to the first isolation of human embryonic stem and human embryonic germ cells. Dr. West received a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1976, an M.S. in Biology from Andrews University in 1982, and a Ph.D. from Baylor College of Medicine in 1989 concentrating on the biology of cellular aging
What is the salary of Michael West?
As the Chief Executive Officer, Founder, and Director of AgeX Therapeutics Inc, the total compensation of Michael West at AgeX Therapeutics Inc is $1,041,700. There are no executives at AgeX Therapeutics Inc getting paid more.
