About Us

Executive Team

Quyen Nguyen, MD/PhD

Chief Executive Officer
Founder

Brett Berman, MD/FACC

Chief Medical Officer
Co-Founder

Jim Schmidt

Chief Financial Officer

Mike Whitney, PhD

Vice President, Discovery
Scientific Co-Founder

Kim Potter, MS

Director of Clinical Operations

Chrysa Mineo

Co-Founder

Yana Campen

Executive Administrator

Board of Directors

Kim Kamdar, PhD

Board Member

Magda Marquet, PhD

Board Member

Dan Bradbury

Board Member

Jean Pierre Millon

Board Member

Advisors

Santiago Horgan, MD

Executive Advisor

In Memoriam

Roger Tsien, PhD

(1952-2016)
Inventor & Co-Founder
2008 Nobel Laureate

origin of Alume Biosciences

2003-2006

Joint effort between Quyen Nguyen (Professor of Surgery, UCSD) & Roger Y. Tsien (1952-2016)
2008

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Roger Y. Tsien
Over $20MM in NIH, DOD, Lustgarten, Burroughs, and Wellcome Fund support
2011

TED Talk, Quyen Nguyen
2012

Tumor labeling for improved detection of cancer margins. Avelas Biosciences, Inc. completes Phas 1 clinical trial in breast cancer; completes Series B financing for Phase 2
2014

Presidential Award, Quyen Nguyen
2016

Instrumentation and processing algorithm for intraoperative imaging. OnLume, Inc.
2017

Launch of Alume Biosciences, Inc.

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