Management Team
Seasoned in therapeutic technologies, with decades of company development expertise.
Eric Schuur, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
Dr. Schuur has over 25 years of experience as a scientist, manager, and consultant. He has deep scientific expertise from the bench level to the clinic at places such as UCLA, Stanford, and the Scripps Research Institute. Dr. Schuur has extensive industry experience with early stage companies, including Calydon, Inc. and Asthmatx, Inc. where he has managed preclinical and clinical research teams. As a consultant, he provided medical and scientific strategy, communications, and information management services for companies in the the regenerative medicine, gene therapy, genomics, diagnostics, and biomarkers fields.
Dr. Schuur has a PhD in Experimental Pathology from the UCLA School of Medicine and completed an NIH-sponsored post-doctoral fellowship at the Scripps Research Institute. Dr. Schuur serves as an Adviser to the Stanford School of Medicine SPARK Program and as a Mentor in the Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing Innovation Farm Team Program.
Claudia Preziosi
Head of Business Development and Operations
Claudia holds a master’s degree with Honors in International Business and Development from the University of Parma, Italy. She is also a Stanford-trained project manager.
She combines experience both in large corporations and the startup world. Early in her career, she worked in the International Business Unit for San Pellegrino, Nestlé in Milan, where she managed a portfolio of 9 markets, oversaw several product launches, and was a Lean Methodology Pillar. In her latter role, she was the Operations and Program manager of StartX, the accelerator at Stanford (+700 startups, 16 Unicorns), and gained an extensive background in the Bay Area startup community. After that, she founded Preziosi Consultancy, where she has been helping startups at all stages and in various fields to grow and thrive.
