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Dr. Edward Ball has served as our medical advisor since 2003. He is the Chief of the Division of Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is also the Program Leader for Tumor Immunology and Transplantation at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center. Dr. Ball received his B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland and his M.D. from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). He completed hematology/oncology training at CWRU and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and is Board-certified in Hematology and Oncology. Dr. Ball previously served on the faculties of Dartmouth Medical School (1982-1991) and the University of Pittsburgh (1991-1998) where he was Division Chief of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation. Dr. Ball has published extensively on his research in the development of novel treatments for leukemia and in the field of clinical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation including 155 original scientific articles, 62 book chapters, and edited three books. He is senior editor of the textbook Hematopoietic Stem Cell Therapy. Dr. Ball's research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1982. Dr. Ball was a Scholar of the Leukemia Society, received their Stohlman Award, and is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation. He has served as President of the Association of Hematology/Oncology Program Directors, Councilor to the Association of Subspecialty Professors, has served on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, and is currently a Counsilor to the International Society of Experimental Hematology. | 