Empowering Healthcare Through Innovation and Compassion

Courageous Healing. For Impact. At Scale.

Our Mission

Our mission is to transform healthcare by developing revolutionary approaches to healing.

We believe that healing is about more than limiting suffering – it’s about accelerating joy; that healing technologies should be driven by deep compassion and an unwavering commitment to doing better; and that every patient deserves access to breakthrough innovations in how we heal.

Who We Are

We are bold, heart-centered disruptors changing what healing means.

Los Angeles BioSciences, Inc., was founded on a simple but urgent truth: patients deserve more than the current standard of care. Our team is fueled by that mission. We lead our work with love and joy, driven by a relentless desire to ensure every patient does not just heal, but thrives.

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Our Team

The LABS team shares a deep belief: that healing must be better.

We came together not to build a company, but to answer a call. Every person here is driven by the same urgency to do more, to do it differently, and to hold ourselves to a higher standard in how we care and what we create.

Derya L Kelter

Co-Founder & CEO

Ketan M. Patel, MD

Co-Founder, Board Director

Justin Gillenwater, MD, MS

Board Director, Advisor

Megan R. Hill, PhD.

Research & Development,
The Hill Laboratory

Graham Ives, MD

Advisor

Jeff Nichols

Chief Financial Officer

Joanna Bowzer

Vice President, Marketing

Erin Zapcic

Executive Assistant, CEO

Robin Richards

Chairman of the Board

Chris Michalik

Board Director