Dr. Jay Tong

Biography

Jay Tong, M.D, founded AllCells, LLC in 1998 and has served as the company’s President & CEO since that time. While working as a Research Scientist at Novartis-Systemix (Palo Alto, CA) in the 1990s, Dr. Tong recognized an industry need for a readily available commercial source of hematologic tissue such as bone marrow, cord & peripheral blood, and purified hematology & immunology primary cell types needed to support scientific research, drug discovery and development. Jay Tong earned his M.D. from Suzhou Medical College in China, and completed graduate studies in Hematology at Henan University at Zheng Zhou. He later completed his Hematology Fellowship at the prestigious Genoa Medical School in Italy, a world leader in bone marrow transplantation. Additional post-doctoral training took Dr. Tong to Dr. Ronald Hoffman’s Lab at Indiana University Medical School at Indianapolis. Dr. Tong has published over thirty (30) peer reviewed papers relating to stem cell purification, ex vivo expansion, gene transduction, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 

Research Interest

Providing a reliable source of blood-derived cells and services for immuno- and cell therapy development