Aliment Health, Inc.

Aliment Health is developing a mobile device that consumers will use to test food for the presence known food allergens.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Biotechnology
  • Location Menlo Park, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded October 2010
  • Employees 4
  • Website alimenthealth.com

Company Summary

More than 20 million Americans are estimated to suffer from food allergies. Prevalence has increased more than 100% in the last decade and continues to climb and there is no cure. The Allert™ will be the only objective line of defense to further reduce the risk of accidental ingestion by testing food. Designed specifically for those foods causing 90+% of reactions in restaurants: desserts, sauces, soups and stews.

Team

  • Mitchell Portnoy, MPH
    President and CEO

    Former co-founder, Symmetry Health Data Systems, Inc. a healthcare analytics firm, sold to United Health Group in 2003. Co-Founder, PharMetrics, a Boston-based health analytics company specializing in pharmacoeconomic reporting to the pharmacy industry. PharMetrics was sold to IMS Health in 2005.

  • Joseph Karratt
    VP, Engineering

    Mr. Karratt has designed and developed medical devices for a variety of companies and indications. He has held positions in the capacity of technical contributor to principal engineer, in addition to being a consultant for early stage startups looking to expand their initial intellectual property. Mr. Karratt has contributed to several companies including Medtronic, Xtent and Bioabsorbable Therapeutics, with a focus on Research and Development.

  • Ofir Goldberger, PhD
    VP, BioScience

    Dr. Ofir Goldberger is a post doctoral fellow at Stanford School of Medicine, where he is doing research in immunology. Dr. Goldberger is a graduate of Stanford Graduate School of Business's Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PRIE), he received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the Weizmann Institute of Science on cancer immunology, and his B.Sc. in life sciences from Tel Aviv University. He has a total of 13 years research experience in immunolo

  • Ellen Kramer, LEEP AP
    VP, User Experience

    Ellen Kramer has 20 years experience as a licensed Architect and Designer for a number of innovative and well-known Silicon Valley firms. Ms. Kramer’s clients include Apple, Lunar Design, Palantir and Siebel Foundation (First Virtual Group).Ms. Kramer has been at the forefront of food allergy management since 1995, having initiated and designed the first food allergy management protocols in the Menlo Park City School District.

  • David Rosenbaum
    VP, Intellectual Property

    Mr. Rosenbaum is a Registered Patent Attorney with over twenty-seven years of experience in life science related technologies, including medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. David is the founding shareholder of RosenbaumIP, an intellectual property law firm with a practice emphasis on intellectual property portfolio management.

Advisors

  • Tom Thomas, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed

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