About Us

Betty is a Bay Area native, studied Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, and started her early career working on technologies endemic to Silicon Valley at the time - ink jet printers and silicon wafers. 

With encouragement from her mentor Dr. Boris Rubinsky to pursue her interests in healthcare, Betty joined the labs of Dr. Robert Langer and Dr. Daniel Blankschtein at MIT, where she earned a Doctor of Science for her thesis research on transdermal drug delivery.  

Naturally, she went on to work in drug development, learning the rigors of the drug approval process, and ushering a new drug delivery platform to a first in human study for Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research. 

Following her work in big pharma, Betty returned to the Boston area to join an entrepreneurial venture in consumer care as the first hire and head of skin product development. 

There, she found a new fervor for rolling up her sleeves and wearing different hats in the product commercialization process. Next generation extensions of those products from brands owned by Shiseido and Unilever are still found in the marketplace today.

John is a board-certified dermatologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology. Also a Bay Area native, John received his BS and MD degrees from Stanford University, where he served as Chief Resident under the mentorship of Dr. Alfred Lane.

John continued to pursue his passion for medicine and patient care, eventually running his own clinical practice which served the local community for the better part of two decades.

Today, he advises start-up companies, serves on their boards and analyzes healthcare investments. His patient experiences continue to inform his approach to assessing unmet need and value creation.

Upon meeting through their dermatology colleagues and advisors, John and Betty immediately connected on their mutual passion for helping people with the most fundamental skin challenges—itchy, dry, barrier impaired skin. 

And they also agreed on a low-fuss, data-driven, practical approach to finding solutions to these challenges. 

EIGENSKIN was founded on the union of clinical insight and product development expertise to deliver tools that help people own their own skin again.