By Susan FitzGerald

Annette Tobia made the rounds at last week's BIO 2005 convention carrying a backpack stocked with jars of secret anti-aging cream.

As she talked with potential investors and partners from as far away as Japan. India, Israel and Argentina, Tobia handed them each a jar.

" I tell them to try it where they have wrinkles," Tobia said between meetings at the Convention Center in Philadelphia. "I tell them to start at the neck."

Tobia could have been dismissed as just another huckster promising the next fountain of youth. But as head of Dynamis Therapeutics Inc., a biotech company in Elkins Park, she has some solid science in her portfolio.

The anti-aging cream grew from cancer research at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Northeast Philadelphia — a shift that shows how serendipitous science can be and how basic findings can have broad applications.
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