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Daniel Kraft

Faculty Chair for Medicine & Neuroscience, Singularity University; Founder & Chair, Exponential Medicine

Daniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard trained physician-scientist, inventor and entrepreneur.

Dr. Kraft has over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research and healthcare innovation. Daniel is the Faculty Chair for Medicine & Neuroscience for Singularity University and is the Founder and Chair of Exponential Medicine, a program which explores convergent, exponentially developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. His various TEDTalks have over 1 Million Views. Daniel was recently named a member of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute’s Healthcare Innovator Fellows.

Following undergraduate degrees at Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Dr. Kraft was board certified in the Harvard combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency program at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. He went on to complete Stanford fellowships in hematology/oncology & bone marrow transplantation, and extensive research in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine.  He has multiple scientific publications (Nature and Science) and medical device, immunology and stem cell related patents through faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at University of California San Francisco.

Dr. Kraft is the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founded RegenMed Systems, a company developing technologies to enable adult stem cell based regenerative therapies.  He serves as an advisor to the X-Prize, Nokia, Qualcomm Life, and a variety of healthcare startups.

Daniel is an avid pilot and has served in the Massachusetts and California Air National Guard as an officer and flight surgeon with an F-16 fighter Squadron. He has conducted research on aerospace medicine published with NASA, and was a finalist for astronaut selection.

Various awards include:

2016 Winner, Top 50 in Digital Health: http://www.top50indigitalhealth.com/

Dr. Kraft named as one of the 40 Smartest People in Healthcare by Beckers’ Hospital Review.

InternetMedicine.com named Dr. Kraft one of The Top Ten Internet-Smart Doctors in the World 2013.

Daniel Kraft was recognized as one of the most inspiring leaders in Life Sciences, as determined by the readers of Pharma Voice 100.