Ex-pro baseball pitcher with a biomedical PhD now helps people store stem cells
kyliebytes · x · 2026-11-07
A wild career-pivot story shared by Ashlee Vance: the subject was a professional baseball pitcher on his way to the MLB, who also earned a PhD in biomedical engineering. He now helps people collect and store their stem cells for rejuvenation therapies.
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