Steven Bauer, PhD

Chief Regulatory Science Affairs Program Officer for WFIRM

Steven R. Bauer, Ph.D., is the Regulatory Science Affairs Program Officer for Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) , Dr. Bauer supervises scientific staff engaged in review of cell-based biological therapies, policy development in emerging areas of cellular therapies and regenerative medicine, and research relevant to their use in clinical trials.  His current research focuses on multipotent stromal cell biology and stromal cell-hematopoietic cell interactions that influence development of lymphocytes.  Dr. Bauer received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland in 1986.  From 1986 though 1991, Dr. Bauer was a scientific member of the Basel Institute for Immunology in Basel, Switzerland.  In 1991, Dr. Bauer joined CBER’s Division of Cellular and Gene Therapies.