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Dr. Uchida is responsible for an expanded human tissue-derived stem cell discovery initiative focusing on the discovery of new stem or progenitor cells as well as the furthering the research of the nature and characteristics of the Company's existing neural stem cell and candidate stem-like cells derived from liver and pancreas. Dr. Uchida has served as Director of Stem Cell Biology at StemCells since joining the Company in 1998. In 1999 she was first to identify, by cell surface marker, the human central nervous system stem cell. Previously she was employed at SyStemix, Inc. as a Research Scientist working on hematopoietic stem cell biology. Dr. Uchida has worked in stem cell biology for the past 10 years, and obtained her Doctorate Degree in Cancer Biology from Stanford University and completed her Post Doctoral training in the Laboratory of Dr. Irving Weissman at the Stanford University School of Medicine. | 