Stephen has served as our Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of Clinical Development since January 2020. He has over 14 years of experience with early clinical development in central nervous system disorders across a wide range of neuroscience indications. Dr. Huhn also served as Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Clinical Development at StemCells, Inc. from 2007 to July 2016 where he led multiple clinical programs in lysosomal storage diseases, age-related macular degeneration, spinal cord injury, and leukodystrophies. After the reverse merger of StemCells, Inc. in July 2016 until January 2020, Dr. Huhn provided independent consulting services to multiple biotechnology companies focused on early clinical development for a range of CNS indications and therapeutic platforms. Dr. Huhn is a board-certified neurosurgeon and Fellow in the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He trained in neurosurgery at the University of Maryland and completed fellowships in neuro-oncology at the University of California, San Francisco and pediatric neurosurgery at Northwestern University. Before pursuing clinical translation in industry, Dr. Huhn was Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery and an Associate Professor in Neurological Surgery at Stanford University.
Stephen holds an M.D. awarded by the University of Arizona College of Medicine in May 1987.
