Jan Spanholtz PhD

Dr. Jan Spanholtz initiated Glycostem's research in the start-up phase in 2007 and is currently Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of Glycostem. Dr. Jan Spanholtz has more than 15 years of expertise in research on stem cell biology and immunology at universities and within biotech companies. He is author of various peer-reviewed research articles and inventor of Glycostem's proprietary technology platform to generate oNKord from umbilical cord blood stem cells.

For Glycostem, he has set-up and managed several national and international collaborations and spearheaded clinical translational of Glycostem's NK-cell product, oNKord. He has developed the core IP strategy for Glycostem as inventor of feeder cell free NK-cell culture method from cord blood stem cells, synthetic culture medium for NK-cells and has was also part of several other patent applications in the stem cell field.