About us

We are team of scientists and entrepreneurs with vast experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, working to improve the lives of patients with chronic wounds all over the world.

We accomplished what seemed to be impossible: curing chronic wounds.

A public health problem that involves the suffering of 120 million people that deal with chronic pain, infections, amputations, depression, insomnia, etc. while costing billions of dollars a year in wound management to public health systems. Our gel has earned us the recognition of various institutions such as: Singularity University, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Stanford University, Balseiro Institute, IAE Business School, among others and we have obtained the first prize in several National and International Scientific Congresses. As a result, we have been published in books and papers from the USA, Japan and Spain.

Singularity University chose to invest in Untech, among 23 companies participating in the Innovation Hub.

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We obtained the first prize in Everis 2017, Spain.

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Our team

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Rubén C. Salim Brovia

CEO & Co-Founder

Leads commercial and financial aspects of the project.
He has a degree in business administration, specialist and university professor in marketing. As a technology entrepreneur, he was CEO and co-founded 4 technology startups in Argentina, Spain, Portugal and the US.

Alberto N. Ramos Vernieri

CTO & Co-Founder

Leads the R&D aspects of the project.He has a degree in Chemistry and Biochemistry, a PhD in biochemistry and postdoctoral studies in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Immunology. He led a research on chronic wounds for 15 years and has won several awards at international congresses, publishing papers and books on the matter. He is the main inventor of this technology for which he was awarded the Ten Outstanding Young persons award by the Junior Chamber International.

Romina M. Chávez Jara

COO & Partner

Leads the preclinical aspects of the project.
She has a degree in Genetics and a PhD in Biological Sciences and has international training (NIH) in the design and execution of biological tests on animals. She has led the largest epidemiological and economic study of chronic wounds in Latin America and in her doctoral and postdoctoral studies, she studied the action mechanism of Untech, by which she is one of the inventors of the patent that protects this technology.

Nicolás A. Cerusico

CCO & Partner

Leads the clinical aspects of the project.
He has a degree and a PhD in Biochemistry and has international training in GCP (NIH). In his doctoral and postdoctoral studies he studied the physiopathology of chronic wounds developing various applied technologies, for which he was nominated by MIT Technology Review as one of the Innovators under 35 in Latin America. He is one of the inventors in the patent (US) that protects Untech technology.

Advisory Board

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Facundo Garreton

Finance

He is an entrepreneur and Congressman from Tucumán (Argentina). He is an entrepreneur, founded InvertirOnline.com, ASEA and founding director of SociaLab and also a member of the Endeavor network. He has a postgraduate degree from Boston University, where he focused on banking and financial services.

Gustavo Garrido

Legal

Co-founder of Estudio Garrido Abogados. He has a master’s degree in law from Duke University School of Law. He has worked at the Chiomenti Studio in Rome and as a foreign associate in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell. He specializes in commercial law and particularly in Mergers, Acquisitions and Entrepreneurship.

Marcelo Pablo Grabois

Intelectual Property

He is a specialist in Technological Bonding and Industrial Property Agent. He has founded and directs the first Private Competitive Intelligence Center of Argentina (ITERA), and has provided Intellectual Property and Intelligence services in technology business strategies to more than 450 international and national companies and institutions such as PWC, GEMA Biotech, INVAP, Sancor .

Diego García

Industrial Design

He is an industrial designer. Founder and director of Estudio Alpina, a company dedicated to the development and innovation of products through design. Professor in the UBA Industrial Design career. Co-founder of Nodobjetos, a company dedicated to the design, production and marketing of everyday objects.

Rosario Cestau

Strategic Planning

Biologist specialized in Genetics and holds an MBA, initiating her 20-year career at academic institutions in Uruguay and U.S. (Tulane University and Brigham & Women’s Hospital) and in the biotechnology industry in multiple medical and commercial roles at the headquarter offices of Vertex, Biogen, Genzyme, as well as regional LATAM positions at Genzyme and Sanofi. Rosario led the startup for Aegerion Pharmaceuticals, including all regulatory, legal and commercial aspects of the company’s product portfolio.

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Aída E. Sterin Prync

Regulatory Affairs

She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Sciences and a Master’s degree in Biological Sciences conducting basic and applied research in Biotechnology and Cell Biology in Argentina and Israel. She held hierarchical positions in the biotechnology pharmaceutical industry in the areas of Quality and R + D + i. She is Professor of Biotechnology at the University Institute of the Hospital Italiano and consultant in Biotechnology projects applied to health. She is co-author of national and international patents and scientific works.

Enrique Mallea

Business

JD Lawyer UCA Law School, LLM University of Pennsylvania and MBA ESCP European Business School. Advisor in NEORIS, digital accelerator (Cemex subsidiary, Public Co), advisor in TESACOM (Satellite Communications & IOT Service Provider) and Net Oil (Oil, Gas, Power Electricity and Energy Transition).
General Manager in Aggreko (Subsidiary Distributed Energy Company, UK), President & CEO in PETSA/Trefoil ( Oil & Gas, Upstream Operations, Norway), President & CEO in HUTCHISON TELECOM (Wireless Telecommunications, China).
Chairman in several companies like YPF GAS, MOSCA RETAIL, G&Z/RHEEM and others.

Sofia Couto da Rocha

Clinical & Business Strategy

She is Medical doctor (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Master in Regenerative Medicine (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Specialist in Clinical Research (Harvard Medical School) and has formation in Dermatology (Université Libre de Bruxelles). She also has an MBA (MIT Sloan immersion, Lisbon/Cambridge). Currently she is member of the National Medical Council for information Technologies in Health Care and is working as Executive Director (Outpatients LX Clinics) and Chief Transformation Officer at Lusíadas Saúde (UnitedHealth Group).

Ana Telles

Medical Communication

Physician specialized in Pathology and holds a PhD in biomarkers for cancer in University of São Paulo and a MBA in Public Health in Harvard Public Health School. Worked in Institutions and Pharma companies for LATAM leading the Medical Affairs Area in Bayer, Aegerion and Amryt Pharmaceuticals. Supported the development of studies with investigators and Implemented Expanded Access Programs and Compassionate Use in Aegerion and Amryt Pharmaceutical, working close with Regulatory Global Team, Patient Advocacy and Data Generation.

Hipólito Giménez Blanco

Marketing

Digital entrepreneur with a proven track record in marketing and technology. At Cuatro Cabezas and Wunderman, he led digital projects for Nokia, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, Coca Cola, and Danone. Founded Pow, an e-commerce firm, offering full-service online retail solutions. Currently, as CEO of Growketing, he’s driving the company’s strategic growth and also runs SPICE, focusing on advanced e-commerce development and marketing tactics.