#185: Franco Kraiselburd (Asclepii Inc.) — Building the Next Generation of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Cell Therapeutics to Improve Human Health
Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:00:00 -0400 • 77 minutes
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Franco Kraiselburd — Co-Founder and CEO of Asclepii — building the next generation of tissue engineering therapeutics for wound healing.
I’ve recently heard a life’s work described as a lifelong quest to build something for others that expresses who you are. It feels to me that Franco is not just building a company, but has found his life’s work and is truly pursuing a grand mission.
Grounded in an international childhood living across the United States, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, Franco began his scientific career at the early age of 12, and has spent the last 9 years dedicating his life to the development of accessible and impactful advanced medical devices, translating the ideas from several different labs within the Tissue Engineering field into reality and the market.
After 5 years working in the University of São Paulo (Brazil), Franco moved to Cleveland, OH, to work in the Regenerative Medicine field as a Biomedical Engineering student at Case Western Reserve University with Dr. Arnold Caplan, the Father of Mesenchymal Stem Cells and the very person who’s research had inspired him to set off down this path in the first place.
A scientist and entrepreneur, Franco is constantly trying to bridge the world's ideas and reality. His wound care innovations are internationally recognized, being awarded a Gold Medal at the 2019 GENIUS Olympiad, nominated for 2025 Forbes Under 30 and MIT Innovators Under 35, and a finalist in the Rising Tech Star category of Ohio's 2023 Best of Tech Awards.
Accolades and recognition aside, I can just express personally having gotten to know Franco and listened to him tell his story, that his mind is a wonderful thing to behold and we’re lucky to have him as an entrepreneur in Cleveland
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LINKS:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/francokrais/
https://www.asclepii.com/home
