728: Exosomes, Longevity & The XPRIZE: With Kimera CEO Duncan Ross
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Discover more about Kimera at https://www.kimeralabs.com
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic |
| 0:19.4 | Surgeon. And today's podcast is going to be a |
| 0:22.6 | fascinating one. We are going to learn all about exosomes. We're interviewing the CEO and founder |
| 0:29.5 | of Chimera. Chimera Xosomes are super well established. They're fabulously effective. And I want you to |
| 0:37.0 | learn everything from the CEO and founder |
| 0:38.8 | Duncan Ross. Duncan, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for inviting me. Yeah, so I want to dive right in, |
| 0:46.5 | and I want to tell the audience a little bit about your journey, becoming the founder and CEO of an |
| 0:52.0 | access home company. Tell me, where did it start and how did it all begin? |
| 0:56.4 | Well, it started probably 20 years ago when my father had leukemia, so I had studied immunology and |
| 1:03.6 | undergraduate, but I got myself back to the undergraduate school and I did a PhD in biochemistry |
| 1:08.2 | and then one in immunology. |
| 1:11.1 | So I was in school for quite a long time, |
| 1:13.2 | learning cellular therapies and then how |
| 1:15.0 | to manipulate proteins on a protein scale, |
| 1:17.5 | and then later cells on a cellular scale. |
| 1:20.9 | At that time, regenerative medicine was kind of starting to take off. |
| 1:23.5 | People were talking about using umbilical cords |
| 1:25.9 | for everything from osteoarthritis to autism. |
| 1:29.3 | And I found that kind of interesting because all I understood umbilical cord cells to be good for |
| 1:34.8 | was transplantation. I thought about hematibutic stem cells more than what they were being used for |
| 1:41.3 | in regenerative medicine. But it piqued my interest. and so then I started attending conferences and seeing what people were up to. |
| 1:49.0 | And then when I left school, I started my own little laboratory, |
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