Board of Directors

Ms. Zhu joined ThermoGenesis in 2004 and was appointed Chief Operating Officer in 2018.  During her time with the Company, she has served in various roles with increasing managerial responsibilities in research and development, customer service, global sales and operations. Additionally, Ms. Zhu has helped the Company’s clients and partners build over a dozen premier stem cell banks in different regions around the world. Ms. Zhu brings over 20 years of technical and marketing experience in stem cell field and has contributed significantly to the establishment of ThermoGenesis’ commercial global presence. Prior to joining ThermoGenesis, Ms. Zhu worked as a technical professional at BioTransplant Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that develops proprietary pharmaceuticals and organ transplantation systems and conducted biomedical research in the stem cell laboratory at Harvard Medical School, focusing on HIV vaccine research. Ms. Zhu received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Shanghai University of Science & Technology and completed an advanced biostatistics program at Boston University. We believe Ms. Zhu is well qualified to serve as a director due to her extensive experience in the stem cell banking and cell and gene therapy fields. As a Director, Ms. Zhu will continue to be a valuable asset to the Company and its Board by providing insight and knowledge with respect to the Company’s commercial operation activities.

Dr. Thomis was appointed to the Board of Directors in January 2017. He brings more than 40 years of experience in drug discovery, clinical development and commercialization. After a short period in academia, Dr. Thomis played a major role in the development and registration of eight commercially successful cardiovascular and infectious disease products while at Bristol-Myers Squibb. He has also held senior clinical development roles at Quintiles, a global provider of pharmaceutical services, where he was instrumental in the growth of clinical research in Europe. He also specialized in designing and implementing effective regional and global clinical strategies as well as repositioning and restructuring organizations. Dr. Thomis is currently Chairman of the Board of Glasgow Memory Clinic Holdings, a private company involved in the conduct of clinical studies in Alzheimer and other neurodegenerative diseases.  He is also a member of the Board of Venous Stent BV, a Dutch private company developing a new venous stent. He previously served on the EMEA and American management boards of Quintiles as well as on the board of PDP Courier Services, Idis Group Holdings, Quotient Sciences, WEP Clinical and NovaQuest LLC. Dr. Thomis is one of our independent directors pursuant to applicable NASDAQ rules.

Dr. Medford was appointed to the Board in February 2017. He is chairman and CEO of Covanos, Inc, an Atlanta-based development stage medical device company, developing advanced computational technologies for the non-invasive diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. He is a senior executive with over 25 years private and public company experience as Chief Executive Officer and Board member of multiple public and private biotechnology, medical technology, digital health and other health related companies, organizations and research institutes. Dr. Medford serves as Chairman of Board of Directors of the Center for Global Health Innovation (CGHI, 501c3) and its operating division, the Global Health Crisis Coordination Center.  Previously, he was Chairman of Global Health ATL, Founding Vice-Chairman of the Georgia Global Health Alliance and a past Chairman of Georgia BIO.  He is a board-certified physician, serves on the Executive Committee/Board of Directors of the Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI, 501c3) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT), External Advisory Board for GIT’s Petit Institute of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Chairman of Oncospherix, Inc, a development stage oncology therapeutics company, Inaugural Fellow of the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences of the American Heart Association, and a past member of Biotechnology Innovation Organization’s (BIO) Board of Directors (2002-2014), Co-Chairman of BIO’s Bioethics Committee, Chairman of the BIO’s 2009 International Convention Steering Committee (held for the first time in Atlanta, Georgia) and a member of the Advisory Council of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.  From 1995 to 2009, Dr. Medford served as co-founder, President, CEO and Director of publicly-held AtheroGenics, Inc (Nasdaq: AGIX) and was a founding Board Director of publicly-held Inhibitex, Inc. (Nasdaq: INHX).  Dr. Medford is one of our independent directors pursuant to applicable NASDAQ rules and is qualified as an Audit Committee Financial Expert as defined in Regulation S-K Item 407(d)(5)(ii).

Dr. Biao Xi has served as Chief Scientific Officer, Co-founder, and member of the Board of Miracure Biotechnology since March 2022. Miracure is an early-stage drug discovery company based in San Diego developing new drug candidates for oncology and immunology applications. Previously, Dr. Xi has served as CEO at ImmunePoint Inc (2018-2021), VP of Translational Study at Theragene Pharmaceuticals, Chief Scientist for China at ACEA Biosciences, an Agilent company (2006-2018), and Research Asst. Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1999-2006). Dr. Xi received a master’s degree from  the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Ph.D. from Zhejiang University in China.  Dr. Xi is one of our independent directors pursuant to applicable NASDAQ rules.

Dr. James Xu is a practicing attorney and licensed CPA in the State of Illinois. Dr. Xu is also a Patent Lawyer licensed by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Dr. Xu has been practicing patent laws, corporate laws and tax laws for over 25 years. Dr. Xu previously has served as a member of the Board of Directors of ThermoGenesis Holdings Inc between November 2016 to December 2019. Dr. Xu received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and MBA from the University of Mississippi, J.D. and LLM degrees in Taxation from DePaul Law School, an LLM in Intellectual Properties and LLM in Information Technologies from John Marshall Law School, PsyD from California Southern University, and DBA from University of Missouri-St. Louis.  Dr. Xu is one of our independent directors pursuant to applicable NASDAQ rules.