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BioDaniel Kraft is a Stanford and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience across clinical practice, biomedical research, and healthcare innovation.

He earned his bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Brown University and his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine, completed the Harvard Combined Residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and went on to fellowships in hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford and a postdoctoral research fellowship in the laboratory of Irving L. Weissman. He went on to serve on clinical faculty at UCSF in pediatric bone marrow transplantation, and as NIH-funded research faculty at Stanford.

His academic research has spanned stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, stem cell–derived immunotherapies for cancer, and the bioengineering of human T-cell differentiation, with work published in journals including Nature and Science. He holds medical device, immunology, and stem cell–related patents, and is the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA-cleared device for minimally invasive bone marrow harvesting.

Dr. Kraft is the Founder and Chair of NextMed Health (formerly Exponential Medicine), Founder of Digital.Health, and Managing Partner of Continuum Health Ventures, an early-stage fund focused on democratizing health and improving healthspan. A frequent voice on the future of medicine, he has delivered four TED and two TEDMED talks and keynotes worldwide. He is also a member of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and the Kauffman Fellows Society.