Primary Job Title Chief Medical Officer Primary Organization Solana Company
Location Charlottesville, Virginia, United States Regions East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
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Sackier trained as a surgeon in the United Kingdom and developed and brought to market a number of healthcare innovations. He consults to health care companies, sits on several corporate and scientific advisory boards and is a visiting professor at Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences.
Prior to moving to
Charlottesville, Sackier founded and funded the Washington Institute of Surgical Endoscopy at George Washington University, a center for education, research, and technological innovation. In the mid-1980s, his team discovered and patented a line of amniotic stem cells and the resultant company, Genethics, licensed the rights to a publicly traded British pharmaceutical company.
Sackier also helped develop Computer Motion’s AESOP robotic device,which led to a successful IPO in 1997.
Sackier is a trustee of the First Star Foundation.
Sackier received his MB, ChB from the Liverpool University Faculty of Medicine and completed his fellowship with the Royal College of Surgeons in Glasgow.
