Dr. Elias is the Chairman of our Scientific Advisory Board and a Professor of Dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Elias is a pioneering researcher of the epidermal permeability barrier. Dr. Elias and his colleagues at the Veterans Administration Medical Center are studying the epidermal barrier for its function in adults, premature babies and in aging skin. Dr. Elias is a staff physician at the VAMC Dermatology Service, as well as the head of its Dermatology Research Laboratory. Dr. Elias has received many honors including the Robert Chesebrough Gold Medal for Research in 1990. He is a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences; he has been elected to both the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Professors; and is an editor for several scientific journals.
Dr. Lindenbaum began her research in the field of angiogenesis (the process of the development and growth of blood vessels, which is active during embryonic development, healing of damaged tissue, and growth of tumors) in 1985 when she received her own laboratory. In 1986, she received a grant from the Samuel Neaman Institute, and in 1989, an international grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Lindenbaum is the holder of numerous internal patents, and scientific consultant to several incubator start-up biotechnology companies.
