Adham Fares
DMD
Founder & CEOFounded and commercialized XeroStrip, the longest-acting dry mouth dissolvable strip. A dentist by training, which is how he arrived at the mucosa in the first place — and the work that led directly to SteroNova.
SteroNova · Team
Built by people who have done this before.
Drug delivery is a slow, unglamorous craft. It rewards people who have spent decades learning where formulations fail and how products actually reach patients.
Leadership
03 members
Ed Maliski
Ph.D.
Chief Scientific OfficerAs a “big pharma veteran,” Ed knows the ins and outs of the pharmaceutical industry. Ed’s heart breaks when he sees statistics on worldwide childhood deaths, and he wants to change that.
He is an accomplished research scientist with more than 30 years of experience in the development of pharmaceutical and biotechnology products at companies such as Sterling Winthrop Research Institute, Glaxo Research Institute, Merck & Co., and Amgen Inc.
Bennett Blakeman
MBA
Chief Operating OfficerSerial entrepreneur in medical devices and pharmaceuticals. CEO of K Pharmaceuticals (Aquoral). Founded the Queen B Foundation, raising $2M+ for ALS awareness.
Advisors
01 member
Gerhard Apfelthaler
Ph.D.
Global AdvisorHaving lived and worked in multiple countries, Gerhard is our global strategic thinker and the big-picture mind of SteroNova. He has worked as a diplomat in Singapore and the United States, and as an educator and entrepreneur in the United States and Austria.
He is a co-founder of AT Consult, CURE Pharmaceutical, and Start-Up Kids, and he mentors a number of start-up companies around the world.
Working on delivery?
We are always glad to meet people who take the boring part seriously.
Scientists, operators, clinicians and partners — if this is the problem you think about, we would like to hear from you.