Suzanne T. Ildstad, M.D., is CEO of Regenerex, LLC, Director of the Institute for Cellular Therapeutics (ICT), Jewish Hospital Distinguished Professor of Transplantation, and Professor of Surgery at the University of Louisville. Dr. Ildstad received her medical degree from the Mayo Medical School followed by a residency in general surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Ildstad completed a medical staff fellowship in transplantation immunology at the National Institutes of Health, where she, together with Dr. David Sachs, established the model for mixed hematopoietic chimerism. From 1986 – 1988, Dr. Ildstad was a Clinical Fellow in Pediatric Surgery at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Dr. Ildstad then joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh in 1988 in Pediatric Surgery. In 1992, she became the Co-Director of the Cell Transplant Facility, Division of Transplant at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Ildstad was recruited to Allegheny University of the Health Sciences in Philadelphia in 1996 where she first established the Institute for Cellular Therapeutics.