Serucell Corporation
Serucell Corporation is a bio-cellular skin
care company located in Huntington, WV.
There, cells are grown, and byproducts of
those cells are harvested and placed into skin
care products that help improve firmness,
hydration, discoloration and many other skin-
related challenges. These products, which
are sold nationwide by Neiman Marcus and
can be found at The Greenbrier Resort, are
used by many Hollywood stars.
Serucell’s products are created on the basis
that cells communicate with each other,
but factors like sun damage, environmental
stress and natural aging can interrupt that
communication, keeping skin from looking
its best. Serucell’s patented KFS Cellular
Protein Complex is the world’s only dual-
cell technology skin care solution.
KFS stands for keratinocyte and fibroblast
serum. Launched in 2018, KFS is the first and
only microserum of its kind, and it focuses on
the hospital sooner with less pain follow-
ing the procedure. Like the AlloX2, it was
developed, tested and first implanted at
Mon General in Morgantown.
“I love medicine. I love thinking about
surgery and ways to improve patient out-
comes. I love helping patients, and I have
a natural curiosity and desire to educate
people,” says McClellan. “I probably
should have gone into academic medicine,
but I wanted to actively pursue business
and innovation outside of the constraints
of academic institutions.”
That motivation led McClellan to become
a bioentrepreneur, founding multiple med-
ical device start-up companies, including
Morgantown-based Intermed Partners, a
new engineering lab where bioentrepre-
neurs develop ideas, perform research
and build prototypes focused on health
care. The lab brings WVU medical stu-
dents together with engineers and design-
ers to perform fundamental research and
product development.
“We are working on a multitude of
novel ideas to improve the human con-
dition. These include devices to improve
providing deep rejuvenation to the epidermal
and dermal layers. A recent clinical study
demonstrated a significant improvement in
skin quality and appearance after only three
weeks of daily use.
scars after surgery and reduce complica-
tions after rib fractures, as well as a new
3D-printed finger for amputees that can be
downloaded from the internet,” he says.
“The students have presented our original
research and devices at multiple national
meetings alongside researchers from
Harvard and Stanford. Honestly, it’s
incredible to see the steps we are making
to spin out a few of these devices into new
companies potentially run by the students.
My hope is that I’m helping plant the seed
of innovation in them that will grow and
then they will have the skills needed to
develop their own great ideas into products
and companies.”
McClellan also co-founded the Hun-
tington-based biotech skin care company
Serucell Corporation, where he serves as
chief medical officer.
“Future companies like these in West
Virginia could really improve the job base
here in the state with high-paying tech
jobs, which is more of what we need,” he
says. “Innovative ideas that become new
companies and provide great jobs must
be the future of our state.”
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