Keynote

Keynote Speaker: Dr. John Newsam, CEO of Tioga Research

Zoom link: https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/94936496820

John M. Newsam has been CEO of Tioga Research since launch in 2011, having served in corporate executive roles since 1996. Dr. Newsam has contributed scientific and strategic consulting to several US Fortune500 companies, to early phase biotech and materials companies in the US, UK, and Korea, to government institutions such as IFP Energies Nouvelles, and has served on numerous academic advisory committees. A materials chemist by training, John has authored over 170 scientific publications, on topics such as high throughput experimentation, skin-applied formulations, zeolites, crystallography and materials simulation. He has been recognized by several awards, including the Corday-Morgan Medal, and by elections as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry. Dr. Newsam has delivered undergraduate courses on entrepreneurship and business innovation at UC San Diego, and has been an Adjunct Professor at both UC Santa Barbara (Materials Department) and UCSD (Chemistry & Biochemistry Department). John holds BA, MA and DPhil degrees in Chemistry from Oxford University.

Tioga Research

Tioga Research is exclusively focused on products applied to the skin. With approaching two decades of experience, Tioga Research has developed world-leading capabilities in formulation innovation and skin delivery & permeation screening. These capabilities are evidenced in a body of patents and patent applications claiming topical and transdermal formulations (assigned to clients), in unique capabilities for screening the interaction of formulations with the skin using high throughput experimentation (“HTE”) platforms, and by an extensive track record of successful project executions.