Martin C. Peters has over 12 years of professional experience developing and commercializing healthcare products from first-in-man through launch and life-cycle management. Martin is currently the Sr. Director of Program Leadership & Management at Biogen Idec and prior to this has served as Vice President of US Marketing for Novartis Vaccines, Sr. Director of Strategic Marketing for Aastrom Biosciences and as a Project Leader with the Boston Consulting Group. He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan where he was a Whitaker Foundation Fellow working on cell therapy for tissue engineering applications. He currently has six patents and over a dozen peer-reviewed articles covering cell therapy-related topics.