Our Founder
In Loving Memory of Dr. Alan Moy (1959-2024)
Dr. Alan Moy was born April 1, 1959, in Sacramento, CA. He attended Christian Brothers High School where he first showed an interest in medicine and research by winning Westinghouse Science Talent Search. He received a BS degree in biochemistry at the University of California at Davis followed by a MD degree from Creighton University in 1985, where he met his wife Jeanne. They married in 1985 in Omaha and moved to St. Louis where Alan did his Internal Medicine residency at St. Louis University. Later they moved to Iowa City for Alan's subspecialty training in pulmonary and critical care at the University of Iowa. Dr. Moy was the father of four children and the caretaker of several dogs over his lifetime.
After completing his fellowship, Dr. Moy remained at the University of Iowa on faculty between 1994-2005 and tenured in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. In 2005, Dr. Moy left his faculty position to found Cellular Engineering Technologies (CET), a pro-life biotech company in Coralville, IA. In 2006, Dr. Moy founded the John Paul II Medical Research Institute a non-profit research institute devoted toward the use of adult stem cells for treating orphan diseases, degenerative neurological diseases, regenerative medicine and cancer. He also maintained a private practice in Pulmonary Medicine including outreach to distant, underserved areas in eastern Iowa.
In 2009, the Small Business Commerce Association selected CET among the Best Business Award in the commercial biotechnology category, which recognizes the top 5 percent of small businesses throughout the country.
Dr. Moy was a strong believer in the dignity of human life from conception to natural death. He was greatly saddened that health care and research had moved away from this belief, and he worked hard to counter the secular influences he saw in the work he loved. He will be greatly missed by his family, friends, and the pro-life movement.
We pray that Dr. Moy's entrance to the other side of the veil was met with, "Well done, good and faithful servant!"
