MitoGenetics, LLC

We have developed groundbreaking technologies that can regulate mitochondrial function that can be used for treatment of Type 2 diabetes.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Biotechnology
  • Location Sioux Falls, SD, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded December 2010
  • Employees 0
  • Website mitogenetics.com

Company Summary

Mitogenetics, LLC is the exclusive license holder of a biomedical technology designed by Dr. George Stefano from the State University of New York at Old Westbury.to improve human health. The technology’s focus is primarily on the regulation of mitochondria. Mitochondria dysfunction is linked to certain disorders and diseases such as Diabetes type 2, Alzheimer's disease, Autism, Parkinson’s Disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease & muscular dystrophy .

Team

  • Marcia S. Hendrickson
    President & CEO, Director

    Marcia has served as a Company director and as chief executive officer since January 2013. She also serves as vice president of Val-Add Service Corporation, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a consulting firm specializing in providing services to start-up companies engaged in various industries. She has held this position at Val-Add since 2010. Prior to Val-Add, she worked at Access Management where she worked with entrepreneurs in creating business pla

  • Mark Atwood
    Director

    Dr. Atwood has served as a Company director since May 16, 2013. Retired since October 2000, he previously served as President of the Agricultural Research Division of American Cyanamid Company and assisted with transition of the research organization to BASF after BASF purchased the Cyanamid Agricultural Business in July 2000. Prior to this, he held a number of management positions within the Cyanamid Agricultural business. From 1967-1970 he serv

  • Mark Graczynski
    Director

    Dr. Graczynski has served as Company director since April 2011. He currently serves as a president and chief executive officer of ISL Inc., Smithtown, New York, an international scientific literature company. In 1995, he founded a publishing company, Medical Science International, Ltd., and a journal, Medical Science Monitor. In 1999, he invented Index Copernicus which developed into an integrative scientific information service via patent pendin

  • Dr. William P Switzer
    Director & Chief Science Officer

    Dr. Switzer is the Company’s founder, serving as a Company director and as chief science officer since December 2010. He is a former Director of the Iowa State University Veterinary Medical Research Institute and Associate Dean for Veterinary Research at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. He is responsible for the development of a number of animal vaccines and patents in the a. Dr. Switzer received his DVM from Texas A & M in 1948 and his PhD

  • Leon Schwartz
    Director & CFO

    Leon has served as a Company director since January 2013. He is currently the vice president of client relations and communications for ICON Integration & Design, Inc. (ICON), Overland Park, Kansas. Prior to ICON, he served as chief operating officer for the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System (IPERS), serving from 1998 to 2012. In this capacity he served as a member of the IPERS executive management team. He received his Bachelor of Liberal

  • Brad Nelson
    Director

    Brad has served as a Company director since March 2012. He is currently involved full time in a family 4,000 acre farming operation and construction excavation work in Greenfield, Iowa. Prior to joining the farming operations, he worked as a design engineer at Vermeer manufacturing and as a manager at Cardinal Glass. He also currently serves on board of managers of Wolverine Wind Energy. He graduated from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, with

  • Isaac Tessmer
    Director & Vice President

    Isaac has served as a Company director since July 2011. He has worked as an independent contractor and consultant in commercial/industrial construction and development since 2011. After graduating from college, Isaac spent seven years with Real Estate Service Group, Inc. of Ames, Iowa. As manager, he was involved in local development and rehabilitation projects as well as overseeing their day to day operations of property management and constru

  • Steve Sershen
    Secretary

    Steve has served as Secretary of the Company since January 2013. He does not serve as a director of the Company. He is founding partner of Val-Add Service Corporation, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a consulting firm specializing in providing services to start-up companies engaged in various industries. Prior to Val-Add, he worked in various management positions in investment banking and in retail securities, including at Citicorp, New York Life Ins

  • Dr. Richard Kream
    SUNY Research Team

    Dr. Richard Kream is co-researcher and developer of the technology and also an employee of RFSUNY. He served as Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology at Tufts University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, until 2000, also serving as Director of Anesthesiology. He subsequently served as Professor of Biochemistry at SUNY Downstate before joining the Neuroscience Research Institute as a recipient of an Empire Innovation Program position.

  • Dr. George Stefano
    SUNY Research Team

    Dr. George Stefano is the principal researcher and developer of the technology and employee of our licensor, RFSUNY. He is the Director of the Neuroscience Research Institute and is a Distinguished Professor of SUNY and CASE Professor of New York. He previously served as Vice Chair of RFSUNY, chair of its research committee, and vice chair of its executive committee. He is the editor of the Medical Science Monitor as well as several other interna

Advisors

  • Chris Lent, Woods Fuller, Schultz & Smith, Sioux Falls, SD
    Attorney
    Unconfirmed
    Derry Anderson, Anderson & Company, Sioux Falls, SD
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed
    Dorsey Whitney: Joe Genereux, Brian Moore, Rhona Schmidt, Marilyn Clark
    Attorneys, Minneapolis, MN
    Unconfirmed

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