Anthony Dellinger

Dr. Anthony Dellinger serves as President and Scientist. He has a biology background, including marine sciences. Dr. Dellinger’s expertise includes attractant molecular matter and chemistry, facilitating the invention and engineering of synthetic agents. He holds a BS in Forensic Molecular Biology with a Minor in Chemistry and a PhD in Nanoscience. He has authored or co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications for over a decade in academia and industry. In 2015, Dellinger was named the inaugural Entrepreneur of the Year for 2015 at his alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dellinger is dedicated to improving public, societal, ecological, and economic outcomes through research, inventorship and enterprise. He is member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Horseshoe Crab Species Specialist Group and has served as a special topic’s editor for Frontiers Journal of Marine Science and JoVE for emerging and sustainable horseshoe crab research. In addition to numerous horseshoe crab peer-reviewed scientific publications, Dellinger’s 2018 scientific review entitled, The Role of Horseshoe Crabs in the Biomedical Industry and Recent Trends Impacting Species Sustainability has achieved more 70,000 reads and is recognized as the second most viewed article published by the Frontiers Journal of Marine Sciences. The horseshoe crab work at Kepley BioSystems was featured at the 148 th Annual Academy of Fisheries Science Conference in the "Spirit in the Night: Throwing Light on Our Many Connections to the American Horseshoe Crab" symposium in Atlantic City, NJ. Dellinger was selected as a TEDxGreensboro speaker (2020) and presented emerging sustainable horseshoe crab research being performed at Kepley BioSystems (Saving the horseshoe crab and fighting the virus with nanoscience). In addition to his entrepreneurial efforts, Dellinger holds an Adjunct Professorship at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering and remains dedicated to shaping future STEM scientists through scholarship and invention.