Lady Gaga's tech CEO fiancée is training an AI model on data collected from human skin
Michael Polansky is no stranger to the spotlight, but one of his most ambitious projects — Outer Bio — has remained largely unknown to the public.
Michael Polansky, co-founder of biotech company Outer Bio, is training AI models on data derived from human skin samples. Lady Gaga, Polansky's fiancée and CEO of Haus Labs, sits on Outer Bio's board of directors. Outer Bio, founded in 2020, focuses on studying human skin to discover new bioactive ingredients for various industries, including pharmaceuticals and beauty.
The company faces challenges in conducting skin research, as testing on living people is highly regulated and ethical concerns arise with using artificial skin or lab-grown organoids. To overcome these hurdles, Outer Bio developed Yuna, a research and development system that maintains living, full-thickness human skin for four weeks.
The company collects donated living skin samples from various sources, processes them in-house, and prepares the tissue for experimentation. Outer Bio's research areas include wound healing, pigmentation, chronic inflammation, aging, and skin barrier function. The collected data is used to train AI models that predict the bioactive or toxic effects of compounds on human skin.
Outer Bio has partnered with Haus Labs, Lady Gaga's cosmetics brand, for the commercialization of their discoveries.
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