Beauty’s What’s On the Inside: Ingestible Beauty Takeaways for 2026
In Global Cosmetic Industry’s 2026 ingestible beauty takeaways, PrimaColl is featured as a next-generation collagen polypeptide engineered by biotech to…
Meet our Founders
Nick Ouzounov and Alex Lorestani met as Ph.D. students in their molecular biology lab at Princeton. Both shared a love of nature, applied technology, and a disbelief that animals and harsh chemical processes were still being used in industry when science had come such a long way.
Resolving this disconnect became a passion, and that passion became a business. Today, that business is transforming biodesign into the new paradigm for what consumers and industry want today: sustainable, ethically sourced, and effective protein ingredients created simply and quickly.
For Nick and Alex, Geltor is the nexus of biology, beauty, and design. The very heart of creative science.
The only question now is, what new wonders will biodesign unlock for your business?
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Podcast: CosmoFactory: Biotech Beauty Knowledge Capture, featuring Geltor Co-Founder and CEO Alex Lorestani
January 6, 2026: Sourcing and designing cosmetic ingredients with biotechnology presents a tremendous opportunity to realize next-level efficacy, traceability, originality,…
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Agronomics Announces Geltor Update | 2025
October 21, 2025: Agronomics' Executive Chair Jim Mellon described the FDA approval as a "pivotal moment" for sustainable protein innovation,…
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- Read More about Geltor’s PrimaColl® Becomes First Biodesigned Collagen Polypeptide Cleared for Food & Beauty, Redefining Longevity Inside and Out
Geltor’s PrimaColl® Becomes First Biodesigned Collagen Polypeptide Cleared for Food & Beauty, Redefining Longevity Inside and Out
FDA GRAS clearance (no questions letter) and global topical availability position PrimaColl® as the first commercially viable biotech-derived collagen alternative…
10.13.2025
- Read More about Geltor’s newest protein NuColl vegan collagen ‘biodesigned for hair manageability and styling’
Geltor’s newest protein NuColl vegan collagen ‘biodesigned for hair manageability and styling’
Having perfected its bioproduction process, California-based biotechnology company Geltor, Inc. has created vegan protein NuColl as an answer to industry…
03.19.2024
- Read More about Geltor unveils CAVIANCE™, a vegan type II collagen polypeptide offering skin rejuvenating benefits
Geltor unveils CAVIANCE™, a vegan type II collagen polypeptide offering skin rejuvenating benefits
06.02.2023