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What We Do

Who Are We?

Founded in 2017, CuanTec is a ground-breaking biotech ready to help make incremental changes that positively impact the world we live in. CuanTec's scientists have developed a world-first, propriety technology to biologically separate chitin, proteins, minerals, and lipids from shellfish waste, mushrooms, and the exoskeletons of insects. CuanTec’s proprietary, ultra-pure, full-chain length and high molecular weight chitin is unique in the World, enabling product applications not fully possible before using commercially available chitin including a wide range of applications in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food industries.

Our Team

Our Team

Management Team

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Craig Sterling

Chief Executive Officer

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Derek Norwood

Chief Operations Officer

Dr Tracy White

Scientific Manager

Lead Science Team

Dr Federico Luppi 

Lead NPD Scientist /
Analytical Chemist

Dr Nicholas Stanley

NPD Scientist

Toby Thomas
Lead Fermentation Scientist

Dana Clarkson

NPD / Analytical Chemist

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