Management Team & Leadership
About Our Chairman & Founder

Professor Adah Almutairi, PhD
Adah Almutairi is the Chairman and Founder of eLux Medical and a Professor of NanoEngineering and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego.
Professor Almutairi completed her PhD in Materials Chemistry at UC Riverside and came to UC San Diego in 2008 from UC Berkeley, where she worked with Professor Jean Fréchet to develop several nanoprobes for in vivo imaging.
Press & Publications
Professor Almutairi has 13 issued patents and many more pending, several of which have been licensed and one of which is being developed by eLux Medical.
She was featured in Forbes as one of the top 10 “Most Influential Women in Engineering in the World.” Her lab’s research has been recognized by Chemical & Engineering News and Materials Today, among other scientific media outlets. She has also written a number of scientific articles on the NanoLipo technology.

Meet the eLux Team

Barry Dibernardo, MD
Principal Clinical Investigator at eLux Medical

J. Peter Rubin, MD
Clinical Co-Investigator at eLux Medical

Peter Farrell, PhD
Advisor at eLux Medical

Robert Langer, PhD
Advisor at eLux Medical

Paul Chasan, MD
Co-Investigator at eLux Medical
Board-certified plastic surgeon.

Richard Fitzpatrick
Formative Advisor at eLux Medical

John J. Smith, MD, JD
Principal FDA Attorney at eLux Medical
Partner at the Washington, DC law firm of Hogan Lovells.