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ABOUT BOINCA

Boinca is a company focused on dermatology, skin-aging, and age-related skin diseases. Our team of scientists, doctors, and business leaders are developing long-term solutions to improve the health and appearance of aging skin and to treat and prevent age-related skin disorders.

Dr. Sell's Research and Discovery About Skin Aging

Dr. Sell, Co-founder of Boinca Therapeutics, has devoted a majority of his career to studying aging. Age is the greatest risk factor for the majority of human diseases including cancer, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and cardiovascular disease.

 

Aging occurs at both the cellular and organismal level and the Sell lab at Drexel University utilizes multiple approaches to understand the aging process and to identify interventions that can ameliorate age-related declines to improve human health.

 

The field has identified a major pathway that can modulate the aging process (known as the mTOR pathway), which is a part of the neuroendocrine signaling network that regulates both development and aging. Dr. Sell's lab was the first to report that this pathway is hyperactivated in aged cells and we have focused on this pathway to understand both the mechanisms involved and to leverage drugs known to target the pathway to improve health. We have found that targeting mTOR using an FDA approved drug known as rapamycin can extend the lifespan of human cells and decrease the appearance of aged cells in human skin.

Dr. Christian Sell, PhD

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Topical Low-Dose mTOR Inhibitor's Effect

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Topical Low-Dose mTOR Inhibitor's Effect on Aged Skin

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BOINCA TEAM

Steven C. Davis                                Chief Executive Officer

Chris Sell, PhD                                 Chief Science Officer

Christina Chung, MD                        Medical Advisory Board 

Ibiyonu Lawrence, MD                     Medical Advisory Board

JR Garcia - GPG Ventures               Board member

Lauren Tyra, PhD - GPG Ventures   Board Member

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