Halo's mission is a sustainable, healthier future for everyone, everywhere. Halo Life Science, is an early-stage life science company dedicated to improving the quality of life of everyone, especially the 2+ billion “diabesity,” population through the research and development of food ingredients, and therapeutics derived from nature and food sources. With an estimated annual cost of over $2 trillion, obesity is unarguably at the top of the most challenging and pressing public health issues of the 21st century. Halo is led by world leaders in health policy, public health, medicine, science, and business, including Program Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Functional Medicine Director, Cleveland Clinic and Chief Medical Education Officer, Institute for Functional Medicine, 155th President of the American Medical Association and past Chair of the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO), and professor of Nutrition, Baylor College of Medicine.