Science Team
Scientific Co-Founder | Anna Mandinova, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in Dermatology, Harvard Medical School
World-renowned dermatology scientist
Associate Director, Cutaneous Biology Research Center, Mass General Hospital
Scientific Co-Founder | Sarina Elmariah, MD, PhD
Our Co-Founder Sarina Elmariah is an expert on skin inflammation and neural interaction with the skin.
Dr. Elmariah is a physician-scientist performing basic science and clinical research to understand why people itch. She has published numerous articles and abstracts in dermatology and neuroscience journals, including Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and the Journal of Neuroscience. Also, she has authored several online publications and a book chapter and is a reviewer for the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology.
• Dermatologist & Instructor, Harvard Medical School
• Physician-Scientist, Mass General Hospital
• Clinical interests: general dermatology, skin cancer detection and treatment, chronic itching disorders, allergic skin reactions, and wound healing.
Scientific Co-Founder | Brad Pentelute, PhD
Our Co-Founder Brad Pentelute (MIT) is an expert on natural proteins and also developing novel proteins.
Dr. Pentelute is an expert in enabling proteins and other compounds to cross biological membranes including skin, gut, and brain.
Using this approach, Dr. Pentelute and his students can create libraries of millions of proteins that they then screen for effectiveness against a range of diseases.
To help with the large-scale protein production needed for all of these projects, Dr. Pentelute’s lab has also invented a new tabletop machine that can string together amino acids using chemistry, to synthesize the desired proteins within minutes.
• Associate Professor of Chemistry, MIT
• Amgen Young Investigator Awardee (2016)
• Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry
• Young Chemical Biologist Award, International Chemical Biology Society
• World-renowned peptide chemist and innovator
Head of Research | Diana Saville
• Co-founder, COO, BrainMind
• Chief Innovation Officer, Angiogenesis Foundation
• Biochemistry, Harvard College; PhD Candidate in Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Berkeley.