Management Team

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Famela Ramos is a serial entrepreneur and community leader.  She began her career as a pediatric and hospice nurse, progressing to clinical trial design and management at several biotechnology companies.  Her research activities resulted in eight peer reviewed papers, including 28 patent and patent applications.

To facilitate accelerated translation of research, Ms Ramos established the Right to Try Foundation, which assists companies in utilizing this new law that allows patients accelerated access to experimental medication. Through this Foundation, Ms. Ramos facilitated the first utilization of a cancer vaccine in the United States and has been assisting both public and private companies.  Most recently the Foundation has collaborated on filing new patents for means of implementing the Right to Try Law.

Ms. Ramos is a board member of Silent Voices/Real Choices Chula Vista, a Pregnancy Resource Center that provides counseling, support and resources to women and their families in crisis pregnancies, as well as pregnancy tests and ultrasounds. Ms. Ramos has been endorsed by business and community leaders as well as nationally known athletes including Dr. Peter Farrell, founder of ResMed, a $18 billion company, and Wes Chandler, an NFL Hall of Fame San Diego Charger.

Famela Ramos

President and CEO

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Dr. Lin has a stellar track record of drug development in the area of immunology and immuno-oncology having worked with the public company Inovio Pharmaceuticals, where he developed technologies for gene delivery and therapeutic DNA vaccines against cancer and infectious diseases in both R&D and clinical settings. Subsequently, Dr. Lin served as Director of Chinese Operations for MediStem Inc, which was acquired by Intrexon in May 2014.  It was the rapid clinical translation model developed by Dr. Lin at MediStem that resulted in the company’s accelerated FDA clearance to begin clinical trials, which resulted in the sale of the company.

Dr. Lin received his postdoctoral training at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and his MD and Ph.D. at the Xiangya Medical School of Central South University, China. He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including several in top journals such as Science, Cell, and Cancer Cell. He holds several patents.

Feng Lin

Chief Scientific Officer

Advisory Board Members

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George Delgado is an expert in the biology of pregnancy and the abortion pill, being the founder of “Abortion Pill Reversal” and having been the first to publish in the peer-reviewed literature successful reversal of mifepristone administration using progesterone treatment.

Dr. Delgado received his undergraduate degree at St. Mary’s College of California where he graduated summa cum laude and received the biology department’s top honor — the Carlos Freitas Award. He attended medical school at UC Davis and completed his residency training at Santa Monica Hospital/UCLA. He has given numerous presentations to various groups on medical and bioethical topics.

George Delgado

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Ramesh Chigurupati

Ramesh Chigurupati is the President and Founder of Cure State Rx Home Infusion and Specialty Compounding. He has 31 years of pharmacy experience, including in the community , inpatient, and long term settings.

Dr. Chigurupati is a certified speciality pharmacist (CSP) and immunoglobulin Certified Pharmacist (IgNS) with comprehensive training in the following: sterile, non-sterile compounding, medication therapy management (MTM),immunizations, travel health and health evaluation.

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Santosh Kesari

Santosh Kesari is a board-certified neurologist and neuro-oncologist and is currently Chair, Department of Translational Neuro-Oncology and Neurotherapeutics, John Wayne Cancer Institute.

He is also Director of Neuro-Oncology, Providence Saint John’s Health Center and Member, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute. Dr. Kesari is ranked among the top 1% of neuro-oncologists and neurologists in the nation, according to Castle Connolly Medical Ltd and an internationally recognized scientist and clinician. He is a winner of an Innovation Award by the San Diego Business Journal. He is on the advisory board of American Brain Tumor Association, San Diego Brain Tumor Foundation, Chris Elliott Fund, Nicolas Conor Institute, Voices Against Brain Cancer, and Philippine Brain Tumor Alliance. He has been the author of over 250 scientific publications, reviews, or books. He is the inventor on several patents and patent applications, and founder and advisor to many cancer and neurosciences focused biotech startups.

Dr. Kesari has had a long-standing interest in cancer stem cells and studies their role in the formation of brain tumors and resistance to treatment. He believes that in order to cure patients with brain tumors we first need to gain a better molecular and biological understanding of the disease. A physician/scientist, Kesari harnesses his experience in surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiation therapy and novel devices to help develop Precision Therapeutic Strategies that will advance medicine to a new stage in the battle against brain tumors and eradicate the disease.

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Michael P Koumjian is a Cardiac Surgery Specialist. Dr. Koumjian graduated with honors from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in 1977 and has more than 46 years of diverse experiences, especially in CARDIAC SURGERY, THORACIC SURGERY, and VASCULAR SURGERY.

Michael Koumjian

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Bishop Coffey graduated from La Salle University in 1982 with a double major in English/French. After college, Bishop Coffey worked as a grade school teacher, a ski instructor in Switzerland, and in the automobile industry in Germany and Belgium for five years.

He attended St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, PA, and graduated with a Master of Divinity degree (MDiv) and was ordained in 1996 by Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua. He earned a Master of Arts (MA) in Moral Theology, also from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in 2000. While still in seminary, Father Coffey was given permission by Cardinal Bevilacqua to enter the U.S. Navy Chaplain Candidate Program in May of 1992 with the rank of Ensign. He stayed in the Navy Reserve for the next nine years. Following ordination in 1996, Bishop Coffey was assigned as an Associate Pastor to St. Katherine of Siena parish in Philadelphia, PA. After five years in parish ministry, he was given permission by Cardinal Bevilacqua for full-time active duty as a Navy Chaplain in September of 2001.

Bishop Coffey

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Mark Skeels (Stanford B.A., University of San Diego J.D.) has 23 years of experience as a former prosecutor and civil attorney.  Mr. Skeels is the founder of Skeels Law Group, APC.  He has 25 years of trial experience in both the criminal and civil arena. He previously worked with Gomez Trial Attorneys and served as Senior Chief Deputy City Attorney for the city of San Diego and Deputy District Attorney for the county of San Diego.

Mark also served as General Counsel for a professional baseball team, drawing on his experience as a former professional baseball player with the Florida Marlins.  Mark handled all player procurement and negotiated contracts with vendors and municipal entities.

Mark proudly joined his alma mater as an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he taught trial advocacy to students with the nationally-recognized mock trial team.

Mark Skeels