Dr. Burger is the principal of Advanced Cell & Gene Therapy LLC a consulting firm specializing in cell gene and tissue-based therapies. Dr. Burger received his M.D. from the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine and completed postgraduate training in Laboratory Medicine as well as a clinical fellowship in Transfusion Medicine and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Burger served as medical director of the Cell Therapy Clinical Laboratory and Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics Facility at University of Minnesota. There he was responsible for process development validation and GMP production of a broad range of novel cell and gene therapies including blood- and bone marrow-derived stem cells umbilical cord blood cells dendritic cell vaccines activated natural killer cells lymphocyte-based gene therapies and mesenchymal stem cells in support of 75 clinical trials. |