Hi guys welcome back to another episode of the Blondest

podcast I'm your host Savannah Boda and I'm your co-host Jacobi. And we're so excited because we're here today with

Maxwell Stalk, the founder of Epi Cutis. And he is going to introduce himself and

tell us all the things.

Yeah, all the things.

How's it going, Savannah?

Max Stock here.

Yes.

We're so excited to have you.

Yeah, yeah, it's great to be on appreciate it. Yeah, so how

about you kind of walk us back for our listeners and tell us you know the birth

story of Epi cutis and how it came to be.

Yeah, so actually 20 years ago I started a biotech company called Signum

Biosciences. Actually my father and I started the

company. He's a professor at Princeton University and we started the company

based on the research that he was doing he was and still is studying signal

transduction networks involved in inflammation so inside a cell you have all

these signaling pathways that tell a cell what to do,

and in this case respond to inflammation.

So we started the company's Sigma BioSciences and over the last 20 years we've been developing

drugs for topical disease and then we've also been developing ingredients for cosmetic companies.

So during that 20 years, became a real insider

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