Our team

Built by people
who develop medicines.

A founding team connecting discovery chemistry, clinical development, and company building.

Leadership

Founders.

Austin, Texas
Uroš Laban

Uroš Laban, PhD

Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

Medicinal chemist trained in the Nichols Laboratory at Purdue, leading Telesti’s discovery chemistry.

Tanya Ramey

Tanya Ramey, MD, PhD

Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer

Clinical development leader with experience at Usona Institute, Pfizer’s Neuroscience Research Unit, and the National Institutes of Health.

Graham Pilger

Graham Pilger

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Leads company strategy, capital, and operations, drawing on experience at Adamo Bioscience and as founder of Psychedelic Consulting.

Scientific advisory board

Experienced perspectives.

Kurt Rasmussen

Kurt Rasmussen, PhD

Scientific Advisor

CNS drug discovery and development experience at Delix Therapeutics, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Eli Lilly.

Larry Alphs

Larry Alphs, MD, PhD

Scientific Advisor

Clinical development and psychiatry leadership experience at Denovo Biopharma, Newron, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer.

Telesti Therapeutics

Discovery &
development.

We are building a focused CNS therapeutics company around original chemistry and experienced development leadership.

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