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Familiar Face Behind Stem Cell Startup

The face behind one of Orange County’s few stem cell startups is a familiar one: computer entrepreneur Thomas Yuen.

The move into biotechnology isn’t a stretch for Yuen, best known as chief executive of Santa Ana audio technology company SRS Labs Inc. and as a cofounder of defunct Irvine PC maker AST Research.

“This is really related to the fact that I am myself a longtime, chronic patient,” Yuen said. “I am a dialysis patient for the last 20-some years.”

Yuen has kidney disease and gets dialysis at his home three times a week.

“My particular illness is a hereditary one, and my offspring are prone to have that problem,” Yuen said.

One of his daughters had her kidneys fail when she was 16,the trigger that led to Yuen’s involvement with Irvine’s PrimeGen Biotech LLC.

Yuen is chief executive and principal investor at PrimeGen. The company’s PrimeCell Therapeutics LLC unit is using adult stem cells to regenerate several parts of the body, including heart tissue and kidney and pancreas cells.


For more on this story, see the June 26 edition of the Business Journal.

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