Chief Executive Officer

Email: kelly@bentobio.com

Dr. McVearry, a technology executive and lupus patient, developed the Bento methodology to increase participating in clinical trials and genomic research across underrepresented patient populations. She is the interim CEO, board chair and lead investor of Bento Biology. She previously led turnaround for Ekagra software, achieving market penetration for Janus CTR, which became the FDA standard for regulatory review of clinical trial data from the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to founding The Hypatia Group, Dr. McVearry served as an executive at Northrop Grumman Health Information Systems, where she was responsible for strategy, acquisitions, and DNA exploitation programs for precision medicine. Before joining the private sector, she conducted neuropharmacology and pharmacovigilance research as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator, where her team’s prenatal drug exposure studies resulted in the FDA relabeling Valproate as unsafe during pregnancy. Dr. McVearry has served on numerous national boards and currently serves on the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) Advisory Council, appointed by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. She served as Inaugural Chair of Lupus Therapeutics of the Lupus Research Alliance, helping stand up the Lupus Clinical Investigators Network (LuCIN), a national collaborative clinical trial network.

Patents and Open Source Solution Architecture

• US Patent Pending 63,237,388 for Health Monitoring System with Machine Learning, Precision Eye-Blocking Filter for HIPAA Compliance and Gamified Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) with Single Tap Symptom Reporting (Bento Flare Application)

• US Patent Pending 63,287,378 for Medical Provisioning System with Security Features: Bento Biology Box Kitting System with BentoSafe Touch Lock developed to prevent fraud and comply with pending FDA requirements for Drug Supply Chain Security Act

• US Patent 9,466,024 for Learning Health Systems, an all-scale machine learning prediction engine, with methods for integrating multi-mic data and leveraging machine learning across participating health centers (on behalf of Northrop Grumman Information Systems)

• Parallel Blockchain Architecture for Pathogen Outbreak Surveillance and Medical Countermeasure Response White Paper

Education

• Georgetown University Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging, Postdoc in fetal drug exposure and neuroimaging

• Georgetown University, PhD in neuroscience with distinction

• Harvard University, Master in cognitive psychology

• American University, Master in learning disabilities