Hey guys welcome back to skin care anarchy. This is your host ECHA. I'm really

excited about our interview today and the brand today that we're going to be

introducing all of you too because as you know we love a great heavy hitting

science-focused brand when it comes to skin health, especially when it comes to things that affect so many consumers like acne, for example.

I think that we're always seeing a surge in the market when it comes to acne-related

products, acne-related skin care, preventative skin care.

So there's a lot of questions I have in this space and I think the brand we're interviewing

today is really coming up with

novel solutions. So without further ado I introduce you guys to the co-founder of the

brand called Byla which is focused on microbiology, virology, and he's gonna tell us all about that but welcome yug. on having me. Yeah, no, I'm really excited to chat with you and really learn from you, but if you could tell us Dr.

like just to begin us, you know, like start us off with your journey and what led to the creation of pilot.

Yeah, absolutely.

And so a little bit more about myself,

my background is that I'm a scientist.

I got my PhD from Johns Hopkins

and then proceeded to do a postdoc at UCSF

where I was studying the human microbiome in its early days.

This was the early 2010s and I'd been aware throughout grad school of this technology called

Phage technology and I'll explain more what that is but I was basically looking for a really good way to deploy this technology right like tackle a disease or a state or condition with this technology. And that's when I learned about acne, where of course I knew about acne, but more about kind of the industry and the state of research, where I realize that although acne is a huge burden,

it's the number one skin disease in the world. About 85% of us get it at some point in our lives,

so it's a nearly universal condition but the technologies that we use to fight it are from

way in the past right yeah you've got your clearer so which has been a brand for longer than most of us has been alive and

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