MelliCell, Inc.
Nicole Rinaldi is an accomplished R&D Engineer I at MelliCell, Inc., with a solid background in biomedical engineering and research. Rinaldi served as a Scientist at Beantown Biotech and as a Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student at Boston University. Previous experience includes various research roles, such as Research Assistant at both the University of Rochester and Boise State University, and REU Summer Research Assistant at Virginia Commonwealth University, where significant contributions were made in mechanobiology and nanomedicine. Rinaldi holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering with a focus on Cell and Tissue Engineering and a Minor in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester, as well as an M.S. in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering from Boston University.
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MelliCell, Inc.
MelliCell develops therapeutics for diabetes and obesity using proprietary technologies that model of weight gain in human fat cells in vitro. Our core technology enables discovery of therapeutic targets and leads, while reducing the time and money required for efficacy screening. It efficiently turns human stem cells into fat cells and accelerates their growth to sizes that are thousands of times larger than conventional limits and that match the sizes of mature fat cells in adults. Changes in fat cell size are how adults gain (or lose) weight, and increased fat cell size predicts diabetes better than obesity per se. The products we develop will treat obesity and diabetes by shrinking fat cell size and by preventing compromised metabolism in enlarged cells. We differentiate ourselves from existing therapies (e.g. GLP-1 analogs, SGLT2 inhibitors, anorexiants, intestinal lipase inhibitors, insulin secretagogues) by focusing on adipocyte-intrinsic mechanisms of action enabled by our core technology.