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Geron was founded by Dr. Michael D. West and is based in Menlo Park, California. The company was incorporated in 1990 and began doing business in 1992. Its current chief executive officer is Dr. Thomas B. Okarma, M.D., Ph.D.
It was included in the SCCC Index, a 15 stock index of companies important "to the field of stem cell, cloning, and cell transplantation research and medicine" when that index was created in 2003 and as of July 2006 comprises 18.42% of the index.
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