Meet the Team

  • Marie Csete MD, PhD

    CEO, FOUNDER

    Marie Csete MD, PhD is the CEO and Founder of OkuloVision, with previous industry experience as the Executive VP for R&D at Organovo, CMO of Avicena, and President/CEO of the nonprofit Huntington Medical Research Institutes. Dr. Csete was the first CSO of CIRM, California’s state stem cell agency.

    As a medical school professor she led transplant anesthesiology services at UCSF, UCLA, Michigan, and Emory, and served as co-director of the Emory/Georgia Tech MD/PhD program. Her lab studied how stem cells age.

    Dr. Csete was educated at Princeton (AB, Music), Columbia (MD) and Caltech (PhD) where she was awarded Caltech’s highest honor to a student, the Clauser Prize. Her PhD work was important for translation of many stem cell products, including OkuloVision’s cone progenitor cells.

    Dr. Csete is a volunteer with the Medical Reserve Corps of Los Angeles, and serves on several for-profit and non-profit boards including the Pasadena Bio Collaborative Incubator. She also serves as a Trustee of the Los Angeles County Arboretum.

  • Nuno Madeira do O, PhD

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

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  • John Sinden, PhD

    SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

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  • Joseph Wu MD, PhD

    SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR

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Incorporated in March 2022, OkuloVision is swiftly curating a diverse team of distinguished experts, joined by a shared mission to transform the world of vision loss therapy as we know it.

If you’re inspired to contribute your unique talent to our growing team, we’d be delighted to speak with you.