Meet the Team

  • Joshua Ismin

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, COFOUNDER

  • Dr. Sam Banister

    CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER, COFOUNDER

  • Dr. Will Jorgensen

    DIRECTOR OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

  • Dr. Joanna Hare

    OPERATIONS MANAGER

  • Krista Licata

    CHIEF OF STAFF

  • Dr. Jinlong Tan

    COMPUTATIONAL CHEMIST

  • Dr. Lachlan Whish

    MEDICINAL CHEMIST

  • Dr. Dilara Bahceci

    HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS

  • Dr. Nick Everett

    PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGIST

  • Dr. Jianmin Duan

    VICE PRESIDENT OF PHARMACOLOGY DMPK

  • Dr. Mario de la Fuente Revenga

    SENIOR DIRECTOR, TRANSLATIONAL PHARMACOLOGY

  • Dr. Donald Gehlert

    VICE PRESIDENT OF TRANSLATIONAL BIOLOGY

  • Kelly Burke

    TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER

Advisors

  • Ryan Bethencourt

    STRATEGY ADVISOR

  • Anna Goldys

    IP ADVISOR

  • Dr. Alan Kozikowski

    DRUG DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR

  • Dr. John Krystal

    Dr. John Krystal

  • Dr. Alex Kwan

    SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE ADVISOR

  • Dr. Eric Nestler

    NEUROSCIENCE ADVISOR

  • Graham Pechenik

    IP ADVISOR

  • Ian Torrance

    FINANCIAL ADVISOR

Partners

  • Psylo have taken up residency at UNSW’s Kensington campus to establish a cutting edge synthesis laboratory

  • Psylo has engaged CSIRO through its Kick-Start Program to evaluate the potential of Psylo’s novel compounds to induce neuroplasticity in vitro

  • Psylo is working with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation to explore deuteration on a number of Psylo's lead compounds.

    Psylo is working with ANSTO’s National Deuteration Facility to explore deuteration on a number of Psylo's lead compounds

  • TIA voucher funding awarded to fund work with Monash University's Centre for Drug Candidate Optimisation (CDCO)

  • The National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, is testing Psylo’s novel compounds using the head-twitch response assay in rodents

  • Psylo is working with CCG’s computational platform to to build the In-Psylico virtual assay for multi-target optimisation

  • Psylo has implemented the CDD Vault informatics platform for managing all molecular SAR and screening assay data

Investors