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Ernesto Lujan

Ernesto Lujan

Kangaroo Biomed CSO & Founder, dNovo CEO & Founder

dNovo logodNovo· Summer 2018🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California, United States
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2024Chief Scientific Officer· Kangaroo Biomedical
In tech · since 2015
Company
Kangaroo Biomedical
Role
Chief Scientific Officer
current
Stage
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Raised
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Based
Bay Area
current
Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role
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The cure for hair loss.

Summer 2018

Experience

Career

  • Kangaroo Biomedical

    Chief Scientific Officer · Bay Area · 2024 – Present

    2024
  • dNovo Inc logo

    dNovo Inc

    Chief Executive Officer · 2018 – Present

    2018
  • Harvard Medical School logo

    Harvard Medical School

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow · Greater Boston · 2015 – 2018

    2015

Bio

Ernesto Lujan received his Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford, and has published cutting edge research on regenerative medicine in Nature, Cell Stem Cell, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. His discovery of directly reprogramming skin into neural stem cells that successfully integrated in a live mouse brain was featured in the BBC. He has received awards from the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.