Dr. Adrian Gee is currently Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, and is also Director of the Clinical Applications Laboratory at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, also affiliated with the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Gee obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1973, and his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 1977. He continued his postdoctoral training at the University of Edinburgh, National Cancer Institute (USA), and the University of Toronto, Canada. In 1982, Dr. Gee joined the faculty of the University of Florida, College of Medicine as an Assistant/Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and became the Director of Research in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics. In 1987, he joined Baxter Healthcare Corporation as a Senior Scientist in the Immunotherapy Group later becoming Manager for Research and Development. In 1992, he returned to academia as Professor of Medicine in the Division of Transplantation Medicine, University of South Carolina at Columbia, SC. In 1997, Dr. Gee left South Carolina to become Professor of Medicine and Director of the Stem Cell Processing laboratory in the Section of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Department of Hematology, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. Following his tenure at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Gee joined the faculty of the Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Gee has served on many administrative boards throughout his career including the Florida State Board and local chapter of "Stop Childrens Cancer", and the organizing committee for the first - fourth International Workshops on Bone Marrow Purging. He is the founder of the International Society for Hematology and Graft Engineering (ISAGE) and is also a member or the North American Task Force for the Development of Standards for Hematopoietic Cell Processing and Transplantation and has also served on numerous scientific journal editorial boards as editor-in-chief, regional editor and reviewer. Throughout his scientific career, Dr. Gee has been the recipient of many awards including the Lady Tate Fellowship (1982-1984), Wellcome Research Travel Award (1984, 1986) and the Leukemia Society of America "Triumphs through Technology Award" (1993). Dr. Gee is also a member of numerous national and international scientific societies and has published extensively in peer reviewed journals on the subjects of stem cell therapies and transplantation.