Mark Kester
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Keystone
Norway
Biography
Dr. Mark Kester, Ph.D founded Keystone Nano, Inc. and serves as its Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Kester is a Consultant for REVA Medical. He co-invented NanoJacket, a non-toxic non-aggregating shell that cages and protects drugs, such as ceramide. He is the G. Thomas Passananti Professor of Pharmacology at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine. He served as Faculty at Case Western Reserve University. He served as Interim Chair of the Department of Pharmacology at Penn State University since 1998. He serves as a Director of Keystone Nano, Inc. He served as Member of the Advisory Board at Legal Life Plans, Inc. (formerly, Cancer Therapeutics Inc.) since September 30, 2009.He has combined experience as a Doctor, Author, Researcher and Businessman. His research interests include the design, characterization and validation of nanotechnologies for targeted drug delivery.
Research Interest
nanotechnology
