Board of Directors

Dr. Jackson is an internationally recognized scientist who has had a long and successful career in biomedical research. He is particularly well known for his work on hemostasis and has published extensively in this area. He has extensive leadership experience in non-profit and for profit organizations and in national and international scientific advisory committees. He held a faculty position at Washington University School of Medicine for many years and later served as the scientific director of the American Red Cross Blood Services, Michigan. He has also served as president of several for-profit companies.

Dr. Yel currently serves as the Global Medical Director in Immunology at Baxalta US d research, and is board-certified in Clinical and Laboratory Immunology, Allergy/ Immunology, and in General Pediatrics. She previously held faculty positions at the University of California Irvine in the Department of Medicine and the Jeffrey Modell Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies and served as the Chief of the Pediatric Allergy/Immunology and Adult Allergy/Asthma Clinics, Director of the Fellowship Training program in Allergy/Immunology, and Associate Medical Director of the Functional Onco-Imaging Center. Dr. Yel also held research and clinical positions at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Guy’s Hospital and Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children in London, St Jude Children's Research Hospital and Le Bonheur Children's Hospital at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. She has been a member of various professional organizations in leadership capacities including the President of Orange County Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in California from 2004-2005, and Chair for the Basic and Clinical Immunology Committee at the American College of Allergy and Immunology

Michael Giske has over 20 years of experience in business management and technology. He has held leadership positions at the CIO and CTO level at leading life science and technology companies in San Diego, including Epic Sciences, Cypher Genomics and Human Longevity. Mr. Giske also served as Director of Strategy & Enterprise Architecture at Oracle. He taught at Oracle University and has given Oracle Partner Enablement seminars on various topics related to Enterprise Architecture and Governance. He served as CEO and Chief Architect for Business Services and Technology Solutions at KPMGS, a company providing product engineering and global technology initiatives, including research, corporate and clinical solutions to large Life Science organizations such as Genentech and AstraZeneca.

Dr. Dias has over 30 years of experience in biomedical research and management in both academic and industrial settings. He has had a long-standing interest in cancer research has published numerous papers and book chapters in this, and other areas of science. He has been involved in establishing several start-up companies and is familiar with all aspects of management of a small corporation.