Jeffrey M. Gimble, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Gimble began studying the differntiation propterties of bone marrow stromal cells, now known as mesenchymal stem cells (MSC's), in 1987 as a faculty member at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

In 1999, Dr. Gimble left academia to join Zen-Bio, a biotech company in the Research Trainagle Park, NC, focusing on human adipose tissue derived cells, where he served as the Director of Tissue Engineering.

In 2000, together with Carolyn Underwood and Drs. Yuan-Di Halvorsen and William Wilkison, he co-founded Arctecel Sciences, a company whose mission was to develop tissue engieering products based on the use of human adipose-derived stem cells.

After the sale of the company in 2003, Dr. Gimble joined the faculty of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center where his research continues to focus on the characterization of adipose and bone marrow derived stem cells for regenerative medicine.