Team and Scientific Advisors

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Xinmin Simon Xie, MD, PhD

(Former Group Leader, GlaxoWellcome, UK

Former Head of HTS lab, SRI International)

Co-Founder

James Xie, MD

Clinical Associate Professor

Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine

Business Development

Dean Carson, PhD

Consulting Chief Development Officer

Medicinal Chemistry

Frank Kayser, PhD

(Former Director of Chemistry, Amgen

Former Research Fellow, Merck)

Histology and pathology

Narayan R. Raju, DVM, PhD

Pathology Research Laboratories

Medical Advisors

Mark Versavel, MD, PhD, MBA

Medical Monitor

Jianguo Cheng, MD, PhD

Professor

Department of Anesthesiology

Cleveland Clinic

Steven Cohen, MD

Professor

Department of Anesthesiology

Northwestern University

Martin Angst, MD

Professor

Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine

Steve Shafer, MD

Professor

Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine

Daniel Sessler, MD

Professor

Department of Anesthesiology

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Scientific Advisors

Mike Gresser, PhD

Pharmaceutical Scientific Advisor

Former Executive Director, Merck

VP Neuroscience, Amgen

David Yeomans, PhD

Associate Professor and Director, Pain Research

Department of Anesthesia,

Stanford University School of Medicine

Duy H. Hua, PhD

Professor of Chemistry

Kansas State University

Chas Bountra, PhD

Professor of Translational Medicine

Oxford University, UK

(Former VP of Neurology, GSK, UK)