Management
Licensed Products Current Research Management Contact Home	Paul T. Wegener, Epitome’s founder and President, is a graduate of Caltech and Johns Hopkins. After working at Clonetics Corporation, he became active as an entrepreneur in a number of biomedical start-up companies since 1990. Mr. Wegener was a co-founder of Firezyme Diagnostic Technologies, which developed an innovative test for sperm viability using bio-luminesence. Scientific Advisors Dr. Karl Beutner, CMO Anacor Pharmaceuticals, former director of Solano Dermatology Associates, and Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of California at San Francisco, is a leading clinician and authority on skin disease. Dr. Michael Fearon, independent statistician. Dr. Yukihiko Hara, Director, Food Research Laboratories, and Vice President, Mitsui Norin Company, first isolated the active ingredients of green tea in the 1980s. Since that time his group has done a great deal of pioneering work in refining tea catechins, as well as exploring the wide variety of health benefits promised by these compounds.