Jennings is a senior MD/PhD doctoral fellow from the Case Western Reserve University Medical Scientist Training Program and principal investigator of a National Research Service Award fellowship from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Physiological Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and is completing physician-scientist training with a doctorate in Pharmacology under the mentorship of Dr. Palczewski in the Center for Translational Vision Research at University of California, Irvine. Jennings is an inventor of patents on proprietary drug formulations in our therapeutic pipeline.

Krzysztof (Kris) is an internationally renowned chemist, pharmacologist, and vision scientist and inventor of ~50 patents approved and pending, several of which are on the proprietary drug formulations in our therapeutic pipeline. He has authored >500 peer-reviewed articles in top-tier journals including Science, Nature, Neuron, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which have been cited over 54,000 times with an H-index of 121. Kris is currently the Irving H. Leopold Chair and Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of California, Irvine, and has received the unique distinction of being elected to both the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.