Maria Millan

Maria Millan

Expert and Entrepreneur in Resident for DigitalDx Ventures

Millan serves as Expert and Entrepreneur in Resident for DigitalDx Ventures, a majority women-owned impact fund focused on delivering meaningful returns, access to healthcare and gender parity. Millan recently served as President and CEO of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), a multi-billion-dollar state funding agency devoted to accelerating scientific discoveries and cures to serve unmet medical needs.

Prior to leading CIRM, Millan worked at StemCells, Inc., where she directed a translational development team for a liver cell transplant candidate, and served as the Chief Medical Officer for the first-in-human cell therapy clinical trial for Batten’s Disease, a neurodegenerative disease afflicting babies and young children. Millan also previously served as an Assocaite Professor and Director of the Pediatric Organ Transplant Program at Stanford University School of Medicine. Millan earned an M.D. from Rutgers Medical School and a B.S. in Zoology from Duke University.