Dr. Barnes’ principle professional interest has long been to develop therapies to protect valuable human lives against aging and age-related disease. He earned his BS in Biology from SUNY Oswego and his PhD in neuroscience from Weill Cornell Medicine, where he published his thesis work on neurodevelopment in eLife while also gaining exposure across multiple therapeutic areas including ophthalmology drug development.

He served as VP of the Tri-Institutional consulting club and subsequently joined Lifescience Dynamics, where he provided competitive intelligence consulting services for established pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in indications across immunology, ophthalmology, rare blood disorders, and cardiology.

He founded Lento Bio with the goal of developing novel treatments for chronic diseases.