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Skin Biology was founded to develop cosmetic and therapeutic products to improve the health of skin and hair. The company has developed and continues to develop patented non-drug tissue regenerative products which aid the body's natural repair system for the treatment of skin problems in humans and animals.

Skin Biology's products are designed by Dr. Loren Pickart, President of SBI. Dr. Pickart is one of the world's top designers of innovative and clinically-proven products for skin and hair. He has received over 140 patents worldwide including 23 US patents on various inventions to stimulate tissue regeneration.

Prior to entering the biotechnology field, Dr. Pickart conducted research programs over a period of 25 years on human aging and tissue growth factors. He received a Ph.D in Biochemistry from the University of California at San Francisco, an institution renowned for spawning a long line of innovative corporate entities such as Chiron Inc. and Genentech Inc..

Dr. Pickart's products arose from his basic research on the mechanisms of human aging. In 1973, he discovered Iamin®, a factor in human blood that stimulates cellular viability. Later research found that Iamin® is generated during skin damage from a skin structural protein called SPARC. The build up of Iamin® in the area of tissue damage causes an influx of skin repair cells called macrophages which initiate skin repair mechanisms. After he started ProCyte Corporation to develop wound treatment drugs, he designed a series of drugs based on his research discoveries. These have produced a number of FDA approved products for the treatment of skin wounds and hair transplants such as Iamin Gel Wound Dressing®, Iamin Impregnated Gauze Dressing®, Iamin Wet Dressing (copper-saline)®, Iamin-2 Hydrating Gel®, Iamin-Vet® for veterinary uses, and GraftCyte® for improving the success of hair transplants. C.R. Bard Inc. is marketing the clinical products for ProCyte. Two other Pickart-designed drugs have recently demonstrated clinical effectiveness in placebo-controlled clinical trials; Tricomin® for the stimulation of hair growth and Iamin-IB ® for the healing of intestinal lesions in persons with chronic inflammatory bowel disease.

In 1991, Dr. Pickart resigned from ProCyte Corporation. He then studied methods to improve skin health by using non-drug materials. The general idea was to develop a skin cream to maintain skin health. The prevention of skin irritations or the healing of skin damage at an early stage (pre-clinical) would reduce the skin complications that so often occur in a hospital or nursing home. Also, there was a need to find alternatives to the use of cortisone and other corticosteroids (which damage skin and can produce many other serious health problems) for the treament of skin irritations.

The goal at SBI Skin Biology has been to develop effective and clinically-proven products to improve the the health of skin and hair while insuring that the products are exceptionally safe to use.


Note:     Iamin Gel Wound Dressing®, Iamin Impregnated Gauze Dressing®, Iamin Wet Dressing (copper-saline)®, Iamin-2 Hydrating Gel®, Iamin-Vet® GraftCyte®, Tricomin® and Iamin-IB ® are products and trademarks of ProCyte Corporation.