Raul Cano

But there's a tiny fraction of people who are what I call microbial ecologists.

And I was very fortunate that my chief scientific officer, Dr. Raul Cano, had been a professor of microbial ecology at Cal Poly for 35 years.

And so he really taught me to think about the whole ecology He was a pioneer in using microbes to clean up oil spills.

And we started talking about the human microbiome and the things we were doing to try to correct or put back function in the human microbiome.