About

Accomplished leadership backed by trusted advisory boards.

LEADERSHIP

FOUNDER · CEO · CSO

Frank H. Lau MD, FACS

  • Harvard-trained plastic surgeon, 11+ years in clinical practice

  • Principal Investigator on 17 clinical studies

  • Developed the ex vivo human fat technology underpinning Lipovectra’s platform

  • Serial entrepreneur; founder of Firecracker (acquired by Wolters Kluwer)

  • Harvard Combined Plastic Surgery University of Michigan Medical School Yale

CHIEF BUSINESS &

COMMERCIAL STRATEGY OFFICER

Fauad Hasan

  • Founder & former CEO of Bonti (Now AbbVie)

  • Inventor of single-use bioreactor technology; holds multiple patents in bioprocessing and drug development.

  • 25+ years scaling global franchises

  • Active Board member, advisor and consultant in biotech, investment funds & medtech accelerators with focus on therapeutics, clinical research, and medical aesthetics.

clinical design program manager

Elvira Chiccarelli, MD

  • Board-Certified Obesity Medicine Specialist

  • Led the US Defense Health Agency's Clinical Practice Guidelines for Obesity

  • Designed pharmacy benefit structures, led multidisciplinary weight management clinics, and directed health system compliance

  • Former USAF Medical Doctor & Assistant Professor at Uniformed Services University; Tulane MD and Adolescent Medicine Fellow at Fort Sam Houston

FOUNDER · CHAIRMAN

Alfred Scheidegger, PhD

  • Created and scaled global venture capital firm Nextech Invest

  • Led global bio-active compound R&D at Ciba-Geigy

  • Trained with Werner Arber (1978 Nobel Prize)

  • CEO, chairman, and active international board member

  • Harvard Business School PhD Microbiology/Biochemistry, University of Basel

chief of staff

Jesse Hartley

  • Strategic operations leader and force multiplier

  • Led multi-disciplinary teams on U.S. government initiatives requiring Top Secret clearance

  • Drove global execution for international operating companies exceeding $80M gross revenue

director of toxicology

David Hollenback, PhD

  • Strategic toxicology and drug development leader with extensive experience advancing small molecules, peptides, and biologics from discovery through clinical evaluation.

  • Served most recently as Director of Toxicology at Rubedo Life Sciences, with prior leadership roles at Gilead Sciences, Amgen, and SNBL USA.

  • Specializes in nonclinical safety strategy, CRO oversight, enterprise-wide in vivo practices, and regulatory filings (INDs, IBs, DSURs) across oncology, neurology, fibrosis, and metabolic disease.

FOUNDER · chief legal officer

Jason Bourgeois, JD

  • Patent licensing & litigation expert with biomedical licensing track record

  • Registered patent attorney; inventor on 8 patents

  • Co-Founder Keliomics Inc.; Founder IP Valuation Partners

  • Tulane Law School · Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech

executive director of cmc

Charles Cabral

  • Agile biologics program CMC and technical leader

  • Led Kostaive mRNA vaccine CMC from pre-clinical dev to commercial launch at Arcturus, CleanCap commercial scale-up to meet global Cominarty vaccine demand at TriLink

  • 18 years experience driving complex biologics programs including mRNA, plasmids, 5' cap molecules, enzymes, and peptides.

  • Prior experience includes Arcturus Therapeutics, Vical, and Thermo Fisher Scientific

Advisors

BUSINESS & STRATEGY

Michael Davitz MD, JD

  • Biotechnology prosecution & strategic counseling

  • Patent Trial and Appeal Board

  • Leason Ellis LLP

SCIENTIFIC & CLINICAL

Adrian Dobrescu, MD, MS, FAAD

  • Double Board Certified in Dermatology and Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery (Mohs)

  • Founder of cosmetic and procedural dermatology practices

  • Experienced clinical investigator

Alan M. Fisch, JD

  • One of "The Leading 500 Lawyers in America"

  • Top intellectual-property litigator

  • Fisch Sigler LLP

Carrie E. McCurdy, PhD

  • Associate Professor, food studies & human physiology

  • Obesity and insulin resistance

  • University of Oregon

Aaron Greenstone, JD

  • Senior CIA Operations Officer

  • Trial attorney

  • 23+ years of experience