Scientific Advisory Board

Robert S. Langer, ScD, Chief Scientific Advisor, is a David Koch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and faculty, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Langer’s research laboratory at MIT is the largest for biomedical engineering in the world. He is considered a pioneer of many new technologies, including transdermal delivery systems, which allow the administration of drugs or extraction of analytes from the body through the skin without needles or other invasive methods.

William K. Boss, MD, is a cosmetic surgeon at the New Jersey Cosmetic Surgery Center in Hackensack. He has served as Acting Chairman, Department of Plastic Surgery, Hackensack University, and Clinical Professor, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey.

James A. Byrne, PhD, is an Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology and the Broad Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his postdoctoral fellow in nuclear transfer and nuclear reprogramming at University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he was a Keilin Senior Research Scholar.

Stefan Gruenwald, MD, PhD, has more than two decades of expertise in molecular and cellular biology, as well as biotechnology and genetic research. He was Vice President of Research & Development at PharMingen and cofounded Orbigen.

Daniel D. Lozano, MD, MBA, FACS, is a surgeon at Surgical Specialists of the Lehigh Valley and Medical Director, Regional Burn Center and Chief, Division of Burn for the Lehigh Valley Hospital & Health Network, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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David H. McDaniel, MD, is board certified by the American Board of Dermatology and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Dermatology at Eastern Virginia Medical School. Selected by his peers to be included in The Best Doctors in America, Dr. McDaniel serves as Director of The Institute of Anti-Aging Research.

Girish “Gilly” Munavalli MD, MHS, is a member of the American Academy of Dermatology, the American College of Mohs Micrographic and Cutaneous Oncology, the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, and the American College of Phlebology.

Stacy R. Smith, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Dermatology at the University of California, San Diego. He also has a private practice at Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California. He is also a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Society of Dermatologic Surgery.

Robert Weiss, MD, FAAD, is currently an Associate Professor of Dermatology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has published extensively on many subjects, especially varicose vein treatment, sclerotherapy, lasers, and cosmetic dermatology surgery and is the Director of the Maryland Laser Skin and Vein Institute, Hunt Valley, Maryland.