
About
Urban A. Kiernan, Ph.D., is the founder, chairman, and CEO of iMetabolic Biopharma Corporation, a Tempe-based precision-medicine biotech focused on obesity-related, cardiometabolic, and neurodegenerative disease therapeutics. Public profiles and company materials also position him as the host of the Decoding Health podcast and a public-facing advocate for metabolic health and tech-enabled drug discovery. Earlier coverage says he previously worked at Intrinsic Bioprobes before its acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Areas of interest
metabolic healthbiotechprecision medicineAI in drug discoveryobesity-related diseasecardiometabolic diseaseneurodegenerationtherapeutics