CORE TEAM
Photo of islets: Brian T. Pham
Persista Bio’s Thought Leaders
The experienced team at Persista Bio has successfully launched other ventures and has deep experience in the science and technology areas of cell encapsulation and electrochemical technologies. With established science and prototypes, the team will move the company into product development.
Persista Bio’s Thought Leaders
The experienced team at Persista Bio has successfully launched other ventures and has deep experience in the science and technology areas of cell encapsulation and electrochemical technologies. With established science and prototypes, the team will move the company into product development.
Founding Team
Linda Tempelman, CEO, Cofounder
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Cornell University
Founding CEO, Giner Life Sciences
8 U.S. patents
Licensing, commercialization and sale of Giner’s transdermal sensor technology; executed a cell therapy pharmaceutical partnership
Minglin Ma, Cofounder
Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, MIT
15 years in cell encapsulation
Successfully spun-out the topical disinfectant company AvantGuard in 2018 with commercial products
James Flanders, Cofounder
Emeritus Associate Professor, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
DVM, University of California, Davis
10 years of cell encapsulation large animal studies with the Ma lab
Advisory Board
James Shapiro, MD — leader in islet transplantation
Simon Stone, MS — electrolyzer inventor
Brian Pham, PhD — O2Line co-inventor
Doug Lawrence, MBA — former Becton Dickinson executive in diabetes and ophthalmology