Meet the Team
Leadership
Rafael Veraza, PhD, MPh
Chief Executive Officer
Kristina Andrijauskaite, PhD, MS, MEd
Chief Scientific & Technology Officer
Toni Hänninen
Interim CFO
George Lamberson
Principal Mechanical Engineer
Team Members
Zachary Maxwell
Operations Manager Executive Admin
Chelbee Mendez
Senior Scientist
Riley Lopez
Quality Engineer
Exal Cisneros
Research Engineer
Maria Basurto
Electrical Engineer
Scientific & Clinical Advisory Board
Donald E. Ingber, MD, PhD
Founding Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
Cristiano Amarelli, MD
Cardiothoracic, Surgeon, Naples Italy
Chair of Gordon Conference in Cardiac Preservation
Board of Directors for the European Society for Organ Transplantation
Co-Chair
Alexis E. Shafii, MD
Cardiothoracic, Surgeon, Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Surgical director of the heart transplant program at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Co-Chair
Thomas C. Mayes, MD, MBA
Former President and CEO of UT Medicine SA
Medical Director of the Pediatric ICU's at University Hospital and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital
Maj Gen Byron Hepburn, MD
Associate VP and Inaugural Director of the Military Health Institute at UT Health San Antonio
William (Billy) Cohn, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Executive Director at the Center for Device
Innovation at the Texas Medical Center in Houston
William Bauta, PhD
Senior Vice President of Research and Development, Therapeutics BioAffinity Technologies
