Education and Research Background
Vitaligen International was founded by Dr. Steve Whang in 1997. Dr. Whang received degree of Doctor of Pharmacy from University of the Pacific in 1988.

Dr. Whang’s research in alcohol metabolism and nutraceuticals began during his internship at VA Palo Alto, and continued as he began working as a visiting clinical pharmacist at the Stanford University’s medical center and University of California at San Francisco in California.

For the past 7 years, Dr. Whang has been teaching as a clinical faculty member at the Loma Linda University’s School of Pharmacy while carrying on his own research at his private firm.

During his 30 year-long research, Dr. Whang has concentrated his effort in developing preventive nutraceutical agents in many different fields. One particular field of preventing alcoholic dementia is based on his ground breaking discovery of alcohol’s effect on brain cell inflammation and death due to one particular metabolite known as glutamate. Dr. Whang’s Alcoholic Dementia Prevention Formula, also known as ARCH-MAX, is based on this particular research.