Academic Background
Just as impressive as Dr. Kraft’s biography below is his academic background:
- Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry, Brown University
- Medical Doctor, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Residency: Harvard Combined Residency in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics
- Fellowships: Stanford Hematology/Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplantation
- Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow: Member of Inaugural class.
Celebrated Researcher
Following undergraduate degrees from Brown University and medical school at Stanford, Daniel was Board Certified in both Internal Medicine & Pediatrics after completing a Harvard residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital & Boston Children’s Hospital, and fellowships in hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford.
Daniel’s academic research has focused on: stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, stem cell-derived immunotherapies for cancer, bioengineering human T-cell differentiation, and humanized animal models.
His research has been published in journals like Nature and Science. His clinical work has focused on: bone marrow & hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for malignant and non-malignant diseases in adults and children and medical devices to enable stem cell-based regenerative medicine, including marrow-derived stem cell harvesting, processing, and delivery.
25 Years of Experience
With over 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research, and healthcare innovation, Dr. Kraft has served as faculty chair for Medicine at Singularity University since its inception in 2008, and in 2011 founded NextMed Health a program and community that explores convergent, rapidly developing technologies and their potential in biomedicine and healthcare. He also serves as Chair of the XPRIZE Pandemic & Health Alliance.
He has multiple scientific publications and medical device, immunology, and stem cell-related patents through NIH-funded faculty positions with Stanford University School of Medicine and as clinical faculty for the pediatric bone marrow transplantation service at the University of California San Francisco.
Entrepreneurship
Daniel is a member of the Inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship and the Kaufman Fellows Society, both of which connect and support entrepreneurs. He founded Digital.Health, is on the board of Healthy.io, and advises several Fortune 50 and digital health-related startups. He is also a managing partner with Continuum Health Ventures which is focused on funding early-stage health tech companies enabling the democratization of health and improved health span for all.
Daniel recently founded IntelliMedicine, focused on personalized,, precision medicine. He is also the inventor of the MarrowMiner, an FDA-approved device for the minimally invasive harvest of bone marrow, and founder of RegenMed Systems, a company developing technologies to enable adult stem cell-based regenerative therapies.
Air & Space
Daniel is an avid pilot and has served in the Massachusetts and California Air National Guard as an officer and flight surgeon with F-15 & F-16 fighter Squadrons. Additionally, his research on aerospace medicine was published with NASA, with whom he was a finalist for astronaut selection.
Awards & Recognition