Rutledge Ellis-Behnke

Dr. Ellis-Behnke is the inventing cofounder and a scientific advisor to Arch Therapeutics. His discovery of the immediate hemostasis technology while he was at MIT led to the founding of the company. He holds 10 U.S. patents for multiple discoveries that use nanotechnology to help repair the body, ranging from immediate hemostasis; repairing the optic nerve and demonstrating the reversal of blindness; preserving stem cells; and immobilizing cancer stem cells. Dr. Ellis-Behnke holds affiliate faculty positions at MIT and the University of South Florida Morgani College of Medicine. From 2010 to 2015 he was Director of the Nanotechnology Translational Think Tank in the Mannheim Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg in Germany; from 2004 to 2010 he was in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong first as a Research Associate from 2004 to 2006, then as Associate Professor and concurrently Associate Director of the Technology Transfer Office from 2007 to 2010. Prior to returning to MIT to pursue his PhD in 1998, he held various management positions including Senior Vice President of Huntingdon, a public company for pharmaceutical testing and consulting services. In 1995, he became co-founder/CEO of one of the first internet companies in the world to do online commerce. Dr. Ellis-Behnke received his PhD from MIT in Neuroscience in 2003; his BS from Rutgers in Agricultural Sciences in 1984 and a diploma from Harvard Business School’s Advanced Manager’s Program in 1995. From 2006 to 2015 he was the Associate Editor/Neurology for Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology & Medicine. He is a member of the National Academy of Inventers and a life member of the International Society of Nanomedicine.