Medical & Scientific Team

Meet our passionate medical and scientific experts who are responsible for safeguarding your treasure. Experts in the field of cord blood and cord tissue stem cells, this team ensures that you can entrust your baby’s cord blood and cord tissue with us. Our medical and scientific team enables to keep our cord blood and cord tissue storage technologies at the leading edge and our processes at the highest standards of world-class quality. They are a big part of what makes us among the most trusted private cord blood banks in Singapore.

Medical Director

Dr Toh Keng Kiat

M.B.B.S (Singapore) M.R.C.P

(United Kingdom)

Fellow Royal Colleges of

Physician,

Edinburgh Fellow Royal

Colleges of Physician, Glasgow

Fellow Royal Colleges of

Physician, London

Physician (Haematology) Assoc.

Prof (Practice)

In the area of cord blood banking, Dr. Toh was a director and consultant to Singapore’s first private cord blood bank in the late 1990s. He joins Cryoviva with several years of experience in cord blood banking, hematology, transfusion medicine, and management of blood disorders. He is also actively involved as a consultant to international laboratories involved in clinical trials

Senior Quality Assurance Manager

Rajiv Kumar

Mr. Rajiv Kumar (Life Sciences, Lab Advances Diploma, Bachelor’s, and Master’s degrees) is an active member of the AABB. Rajiv Kumar studied biological sciences and has vast knowledge and expertise in operations and quality of Cellular therapy services and transfusion medicine, having worked in the sector for over 15 years.

He is well versed in quality standards and regulations such as the PHMC, HCSA, HBRA Act of the Ministry of Health of Singapore, ISO 9001:15189, ISO 9001:2015, AABB, ICCBBA, FACT, cGMP, NABL, CDSCO, cGLP and many more.

He joined Cryoviva Group in 2008 and is now the Quality Assurance Manager and Transplant Coordinator of Cryoviva and Reviva Cell Technologies, Singapore.

Deputy Laboratory Director

Dr. Mayank Vats

M.Sc. (Biotechnology), Ph.D. in

Medical Microbiology*

Dr. Vats has comprehensive knowledge and >16 years of experience in the field of Medical Research, Laboratory Diagnosis, Laboratory Management and Stem Cell Banking. He has >5 years of experience in management of Umbilical Cord Blood and Cord Tissue processing laboratories.

In 2016, he began his work at Cryoviva Thailand as Laboratory Manager. Since 2021, he is working as Deputy Laboratory Director of Cryoviva and Reviva Cell Technologies, Singapore. *not a medical or dental qualification