# Belinda Tan

> Belinda Tan is a physician-scientist turned serial founder who builds the missing evidence layer for wellness. An MIT-trained, UCLA MD/PhD dermatopathologist, she co-founded Science 37 to pioneer decentralized, telemedicine-enabled clinical trials, then launched People Science, a Los Angeles public-benefit company she co-leads with her husband Noah Craft. Her mission: bring the rigor of the randomized trial to the things people already use - probiotics, traditional Chinese medicine, food-as-medicine, psychedelics - so wellness can be backed by data instead of marketing.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and Co-CEO at People Science
- **Organizations:** People Science, Science 37, The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Apollo Neuro, Seed Health, DirectDerm, VisualDx
- **From:** Malaysia
- **Nationality:** American (born in Malaysia, raised in the U.S. since age four)
- **Education:** B.S., Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.D. and Ph.D. (Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics), David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Residency, Dermatology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Fellowship, Dermatopathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center & Cornell-New York Presbyterian Hospital
- **Known for:** Co-founded Science 37, a pioneer of decentralized, telemedicine-enabled clinical trials valued around $1.3B at IPO, Helped raise clinical-trial participant diversity from roughly 5% to 40% through decentralized methods, Co-founded People Science, a public-benefit company bringing rigorous trials to wellness and alternative medicine

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Became advisor to DirectDerm, a teledermatology startup that sparked her entrepreneurial turn
- **2014** — Co-founded Science 37, serving as Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer
- **2014** — Investigator at The Lundquist Institute and dermatopathologist at The Dermatopathology Institute
- **2018** — Became Scientific Advisor at Seed Health
- **2019** — Departed Science 37, which later reached a ~$1.3B valuation at IPO
- **2020** — Co-founded People Science, serving as Co-Founder and Co-CEO with Noah Craft
- **2021** — Became Scientific Advisor at Apollo Neuro
- **2023** — People Science raised a $5.3M seed round (about $8.5M total funding)

## Achievements

- Co-founded Science 37, a pioneer of decentralized, telemedicine-enabled clinical trials valued around $1.3B at IPO
- Helped raise clinical-trial participant diversity from roughly 5% to 40% through decentralized methods
- Co-founded People Science, a public-benefit company bringing rigorous trials to wellness and alternative medicine
- Earned an MD and PhD from UCLA and a BS from MIT; board-certified dermatologist and dermatopathologist
- Published numerous peer-reviewed articles in scientific and medical journals
- Served on the Los Angeles Mayor's WiSTEM Initiative and the board of 826LA

## Latest updates

- **2023-01** — People Science raised a $5.3M seed round to scale its decentralized clinical-trial platform for the wellness industry.
- **2023-01** — Featured on the WeAreLATech Startup Spotlight discussing building a company alongside her spouse.

## Links

- Website: https://peoplescience.health
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/belindatanmd
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/belindatanmd
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557519020017

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Last updated: 2026-06-25