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This list showcases the top Cambridge based Founder operating in the Therapeutics space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Dr. Jon Einarsson
Founder & Inventor of Lattis Surgical
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About Harvard Medical School, Lattis Surgical: The Lattis team developed a Contained Tissue Extraction (CTE) device, using bladeless technology.
Alexander Isakov
Founder & CEO of Lattis Surgical
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About Lattis Surgical: The Lattis team developed a Contained Tissue Extraction (CTE) device, using bladeless technology.
Jordan Smith
Founder & Board of Directors of Lattis Surgical
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About Lattis Surgical: The Lattis team developed a Contained Tissue Extraction (CTE) device, using bladeless technology.
Gregory Winter
Scientific Founders of Bicycle Therapeutics
Professor Sir Gregory Winter is a member of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge and most of his scientific career was based there. He was Head of Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, succeeding Cesar Milstein and has served as both Deputy and Acting Director of the LMB. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, was knighted in 2004 for services to science and in 2012 was appointed by the Queen as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Sir Gregory is a graduate of University of Cambridge (1973), specialising in chemistry and biochemistry; for his PhD (1976) and postdoctoral work (1977-1981) he specialised in protein and nucleic acid sequencing respectively and with colleagues determined the genome sequence of influenza virus. From 1982 he pioneered the science of protein engineering, focusing first on enzymes (with A. Fersht) and then antibodies. He invented techniques to humanise rodent antibodies for use as therapeutics (1986–), working with H. Waldmann in the development of alemtuzumab/Campath-1H. Later, in competition with R. Lerner, he developed methods to make fully human antibodies (1989–) against human self-antigens using antibody libraries. His inventions are used in most of the antibody products on the market, including the humanised antibodies alemtuzumab/Campath-1H, trastuzumab/Herceptin, bevacizumab/Avastin, palivizumab/Synagis and the first human antibody (adalimumab/Humira) to be approved by the US FDA. Sir Gregory has acted as an entrepreneur to translate his scientific inventions to medicines. He was a founder of Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT,1989) and Domantis (2000); these companies pioneered the use of antibody libraries to make fully human antibody therapeutics. CAT was floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1997 and was responsible for the co-development of the therapeutic antibodies adalimumab/Humira and belimumab/Benlysta. CAT was acquired by AstraZeneca in 2006. Domantis developed a range of product leads based on single antibody domains and was acquired by GSK in 2006 in a private sale. Sir Gregory has won several international scientific prizes, including the Prix Louis Jeantet de Medecine (Switzerland) in 1989; the King Faisal International Prize for Medicine (Molecular Immunology, Saudi Arabia) in 1995; the Biochemical Analysis Prize of the German Society for Clinical Chemistry in 1995; the Cancer Research Institute William B. Coley Award (US) in 1999; and the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 2011. For his work with industry, he received the National Biotechnology Ventures Award (US) in 2004 and the BioIndustry Association Award (UK) in 2008. In March 2013 he was awarded the Gairdner Prize for the engineering of humanised monoclonal antibodies and their widespread use in medical therapy, particularly for treatment of cancer and immune disorders.
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About Ahren Innovation Capital, Bicycle Therapeutics, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Trinity College, Dublin: Bicycle Therapeutics is developing a technology for the creation of new generation biotherapeutics.
Christian Heinis
Scientific Founders of Bicycle Therapeutics
Christian Heinis is Scientific Founders at Bicycle Therapeutics.
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About Bicycle Therapeutics: Bicycle Therapeutics is developing a technology for the creation of new generation biotherapeutics.
Geraldine Harriman
CSO & Co-Founder of HotSpot Therapeutics
Geraldine Harriman is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of HotSpot Therapeutics.
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About HotSpot Therapeutics: HotSpot Therapeutics is a developer of a therapy platform designed to discover medicines and provide proper treatment.
Stephen Smith
Co-Founder of Pear Therapeutics
Stephen Smith received his B.A from Harvard University, J.D. from Columbia University, and M.Ed from Harvard University School of Education. After law school, Stephen served as an assistant district attorney in New York. He later joined the staff of the Senate Judiciary and Foreign Relations Committees. After leaving the Senate, Stephen worked at Conflict Management Group; a nonprofit associated with Harvard Law School, and taught in the advanced program on negotiation at Harvard University Law School. As part of his work at Conflict Management, Stephen consulted with global clients including the Organization of African Unity, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the parties in the Irish Peace process. Stephen is a three-time recipient of the Danforth Award for excellence in teaching at Harvard University and is also the winner of the Lyndehurst Foundation Prize for social and artistic achievement. For the past twenty years, Stephen has been on the Kennedy board of Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises, the Kennedy family investment office. He has delivered keynote presentations at the annual conferences of the Family Firm Institute and the Family Office Exchange– the two major family business organizations. Stephen has also served on the board of the John F. Kennedy Library, the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, Citizens Energy, the Northeastern University School of Public Policy, and INCAE Business School and the advisory board of the Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard Medical School. Stephen is a Fellow at the International Economic Alliance, an organization dedicated to promoting innovative international trade. As a partner and board member, Stephen is actively involved in a number of medical and green technology businesses, including Emlink, which develops, designs and manages sustainable technology; The Marwood Group, a healthcare-focused strategic advisory and financial services firm; and Pear Therapeutics, a medical software company. Stephen was Deputy Campaign Manager for Senator Edward Kennedy during his Presidential and Senatorial campaigns, Youth Coordinator for the campaign of Mario Cuomo, served on the New England Steering Committee for the Obama presidential campaign, and continues to be active in Democratic politics.
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About Pear Therapeutics: Pear Therapeutics is a software-based digital therapeutics platform designed to treat disease and enhance the efficacy of pharmaceuticals.
Nello Mainolfi
Founder, President & CEO of Kymera Therapeutics
Nello Mainolfi is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer at Kymera Therapeutics.
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About Kymera Therapeutics: Kymera Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that specializes in the field of targeted protein degradation.
Tom Henley
Founder and CEO of Empyrean Therapeutics
Tom Henley is the founder and CEO of Empyrean Therapeutics.
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About Empyrean Therapeutics: Empyrean Therapeutics develops next generation cell therapies to enable global and affordable cures for diseases.
Raghu Kalluri
Scientific Founder of Codiak Biosciences
Raghu Kalluri is Chairman and Professor of the Department of Cancer Biology and the Director of the Metastasis Research Center at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he also holds the Rebecca and Joseph Brown Endowed Chair. CPRIT funding helped bring Raghu Kalluri to Texas from Harvard Medical School in 2012. Raghu Kalluri received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Kansas Medical Center and his M.D. degree from Brown University Medical School. He was a postdoctoral fellow and a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and performed research in areas of immunology and organ fibrosis. In 1997, he moved to Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and as a faculty based in the Department of Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Subsequently, Kalluri was appointed the Chief of the Division of Matrix Biology and promoted to Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He held appointments in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at HMS, Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Stem Cell Institute and was a research fellow of the HMS Peabody Society. Kalluri has trained more than 70 postdoctoral fellows and 20 graduate students in his career. He is a fellow of American Society of Clinical Investigation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In addition, Kalluri serves on science and health advisory panels in the U.S. and European Union and on the editorial boards of several academic journals representing biology and medicine.
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About Codiak Biosciences: Codiak is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on pioneering the development of exosome-based therapeutics.
Rajesh Devraj
CSO & Co-Founder of Disarm Therapeutics
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About Atlas Venture, Disarm Therapeutics, Rectify Pharmaceuticals: Disarm Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing disease-modifying therapeutics for patients with axonal degeneration.
Edmund Sybertz
Founder of Lysosomal Therapeutics
Ted Sybertz, Ph.D., held various research leadership positions at Schering Plough, Geltex and Genzyme, focusing on cardiovascular and CNS diseases. At Genzyme, he played a leadership role in discovery and preclinical development of the glucosyl ceramide synthesis inhibitor, eliglustat. He has been associated with the discovery and introduction of over 20 molecules into clinical development, six of which were ultimately approved.
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About Lysosomal Therapeutics: Lysosomal Therapeutics deliver cures for neurodegenerative diseases.
Derrick Rossi
Founder of Intellia Therapeutics
In 2010, Dr. Rossi discovered a groundbreaking method to reprogram skin cells into stem cells utilizing messenger molecules. His novel technique eliminated the risk of cancer posed by previous methods and sparked a push to develop cellular and molecular therapeutic products using the technologies he developed. More recently, Dr. Rossi and colleagues again innovated in the stem cell field by applying the CRISPR/Cas9 system to generate hematopoietic stem cells resistant to HIV infection. Dr. Rossi continues to study CRISPR for application in human therapeutics.
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About Convelo Therapeutics, Intellia Therapeutics, Moderna Therapeutics, Stelexis Therapeutics: Intellia Therapeutics is a genome editing company that develops curative gene-editing treatments.
Rodolphe Barrangou
Co-Founder of Intellia Therapeutics
Rodolphe Barrangou is an Associate Professor of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences at North Carolina State University. His lab focuses on the biology and genetics of CRISPR/Cas immune systems in bacteria. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Caribou Biosciences. Rodolphe was previously a Director of Research and Development at DuPont and Danisco. While with Dansico, he was part of the team that initially established the adaptive immune function of CRISPR systems. Rodolphe received his PhD in Functional Genomics from North Carolina State University and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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About Intellia Therapeutics, North Carolina State University – NCSU: Intellia Therapeutics is a genome editing company that develops curative gene-editing treatments.
Luciano Marraffini
Founder & Advisor of Intellia Therapeutics
Luciano Marraffini is an Assistant Professor of Bacteriology at Rockefeller University. Luciano’s laboratory investigates the underlying molecular mechanisms of CRISPR immunity, and seeks to employ this natural pathway to develop new technologies. He is a 2012 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar and the recipient of a 2012 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. Luciano received his PhD from the University of Chicago where he studied bacterial pathogenesis, and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University.
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About Eligo Bioscience, Intellia Therapeutics, The Rockefeller University: Intellia Therapeutics is a genome editing company that develops curative gene-editing treatments.
Andrew Clark
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Camallergy
Andy has been a consultant in paediatric allergy at Addenbrooke’s Hospital since 2003, gaining his MD Thesis in Allergy in the same year. He runs the paediatric allergy service at Addenbrooke’s and this work is complemented by a broad UK Government-funded research portfolio. In 2010 Andy was named in ‘The Times’ magazine list of top UK doctors, and again in 2012 he was recognised as one of the UK’s 100 best children’s specialist doctors. He plays an active role in the national parent allergy organisation (BSACI) as chair of the standards of care committee. He recently led writing guideline documents for managing egg allergy and in 2012 he was appointed chair of this committee. He now coordinates the writing of guidelines on multiple topics, such as peanut, milk and penicillin allergy, and adrenaline auto-injector use. Andy is also secretary to the taskforce on the allergic child in school, which produced European guidelines for school allergy and he is Chair of the expert scientific panel of the Anaphylaxis Campaign. Andy lectures frequently to undergraduates, primary and secondary care doctors and nurses and is a regular invited speaker at national and European allergy conferences.
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About Camallergy, University of Cambridge: Camallergy develops and provides new treatments for common food allergies.
David Sabatini
Founder of KSQ Therapeutics
David Sabatini is a Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and he is Senior Associate Member at the Broad Institute, Member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and a Professor of Biology, all with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. David and his lab at the Whitehead Institute study the basic mechanisms that regulate growth, the processes whereby cells and organisms accumulate mass and increase in size, as well as the role of metabolism in cancer and in the mechanisms that control the effects of dietary restriction on tumorigenesis.
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About Broad Institute, KSQ Therapeutics, Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Raze Therapeutics, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute: KSQ Therapeutics is using CRISPR technology within a powerful drug discovery engine to enable high-confidence drug development.
Timothy A. Springer
Co-Founder of Scholar Rock
Timothy Springer is an internationally recognized leader in structural biology and immunology. With over 500 peer-reviewed publications that have received over 90,000 citations, he is one of the most highly cited scientists in any field. Timothy Springer received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976, and subsequent post-doctoral training with Dr. Cesar Milstein in Cambridge, UK. Timothy Springer has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among numerous awards and honors, Timothy Springer is a recipient of the Royal Society of Medicine Medal, the William B. Coley Medal from the Cancer Research Institute, and the Crafoord Prize from the Swedish Academy of Sciences. Timothy Springer’s research laid the foundation for a new class of pharmaceuticals, the selective adhesion molecule inhibitors, which include the approved drugs, alefacept, efalizumab and natalizumab. Timothy Springer was the Founder of LeukoSite, a biotechnology company acquired by Millennium Pharmaceuticals in 1999. LeukoSite developed therapeutics for inflammatory, autoimmune, and cancer applications, including FDA-approved Campath™.
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About Harvard University, Institute for Protein Innovation, Moderna Therapeutics, Morphic Therapeutic, Scholar Rock: Scholar Rock is discovering and developing a new class of biologic therapies.
James P. Allison
Founder of Jounce Therapeutics
James Allison is a co-founder of Jounce Therapeutics and currently serves as chair of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Department of Immunology and director of the Immunotherapy Platform. A leading tumor immunologist, Dr. Allison has a longstanding interest in mechanisms of T-cell development and activation, the development of novel strategies for tumor immunotherapy and is recognized as the first person to isolate the T-cell antigen receptor protein. His research led to the clinical development of ipilimumab (Yervoy™), which was approved in 2011 by the FDA for the treatment of metastatic melanoma. Previously, he was director of the Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy and the chair of the immunology program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, as well as the David H. Koch Chair in Immunologic Studies and attending immunologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Allison is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Previously, he served as president of the American Association of Immunologists. He has received numerous awards, including the Centeon Award for Innovative Breakthroughs in Immunology, the William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology, the AAI-Dana Award in Human Immunology Research and the C. Chester Stock Award for Distinguished Achievement in Biomedical Research. Dr. Allison recently received an AACR/SU2C/CRI cancer immunotherapy dream team grant, for which he will serve as the Dream Team leader. Dr. Allison received his B.S. in microbiology and his Ph.D. in biological sciences from the University of Texas.
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About Jounce Therapeutics, Memorial Sloan – Kettering Cancer Center, Neon Therapeutics: Jounce Therapeutics is developing cancer immune-therapies to harness the immune system to attack cancerous cells and tumors.
Joshua Rabinowitz
Founder of Raze Therapeutics
Joshua Rabinowitz is Professor of Chemistry and Integrative Genomics at Princeton University. He is a Member of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton University. Dr. Rabinowitz’s lab studies metabolism from the system biology perspective. His group develops methods that combine mass spectrometry, isotope tracers, and mathematical modeling to quantitate metabolic flux. Using these methods, Dr. Rabinowitz attempts to understand basic principles of metabolic flux control. His lab has found that most enzyme active sites are saturated, with competition between metabolites determining enzyme activity. It is now combining metabolomics with proteomics to investigate the relative importance of active site competition, allostery, and enzyme concentrations in overall metabolic regulation. Dr. Rabinowitz’s lab is also interested in identifying the contributions of different pathways to producing key high-energy cofactors, such as ATP, NADPH, and activated one-carbon donors. Recently, it identified an unexpected tie between two of these cofactor systems, with folate metabolism playing a significant role in redox homeostasis. The lab collaborates broadly, with one notable collaboration having led to discovery of the oncometabolite 2-hydroxyglutarate. Methods developed in the lab are widely used in the cancer metabolism community.
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About Raze Therapeutics: Raze Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery and development of oncology therapeutics.
Vamsi Mootha
Founder of Raze Therapeutics
Vamsi Mootha is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and directs a laboratory based at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also Professor of Systems Biology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute. Dr. Mootha’s research is focused on mitochondria, often termed the “powerhouses of the cell.” Dr. Mootha’s group has utilized tandem mass spectrometry, computation, and biochemistry to characterize the mitochondrial proteome, which now serves as a molecular blueprint for clinical and systematic studies of mitochondria. Dr. Mootha and his colleagues have used this inventory to discover the mitochondrial calcium uniporter, a major channel of communication between mitochondria and the rest of the cell. He collaborates extensively with clinicians and researchers throughout the world, and together they have elucidated more than one dozen disease genes that underlie severe, metabolic diseases. His team has developed a number of computational tools that are used widely by the community.
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About Raze Therapeutics: Raze Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery and development of oncology therapeutics.
Richie Bavasso
Founder and CEO of nQ Medical
Mr. Bavasso is one of the early pioneers of use of digital media, devices and the web as tools to support pharmaceutical sales and marketing strategies and tactics. Since 1999, he has worked with top 25 Pharma clients globally to introduce the Closed Loop Marketing (CLM) function. He has set procedure and precedent in the areas of sales force effectiveness, business-rule driven content management, multichannel marketing, and mobile technology. A frequent speaker at industry conferences and events, Mr. Bavasso serves as an advocate for the industry in promoting digital conversation as integral to the various enterprise functions within pharma and the medical community. Prior to his seven years as co-founder and President of Exploria SPS, Mr. Bavasso served for sixteen years as CEO of Pharmedica Holdings, LLC, and President of its INFLUENT Division, at the time one of the largest medical education companies in the world. He built Pharmedica holdings from its start as a meetings planning company in 1992, doubling its revenues each year until its sale in 2001. This growth included an ACCME accredited entity (Center for Medical Education, LLC), a digital content division (Influent, LLC), and a call center (ContextMedicus, LLC). He opened offices in California, Connecticut, Illinois, and North Carolina. After his three-year earn out, Bavasso partnered to co-found Exploria SPS, LLC, as the mobile devices division of Exploria, Inc. Within three years, Exploria SPS became the market leader for CLM with offices in Connecticut and France and currently licenses software in 33 countries and 18 languages. Mr. Bavasso’s introduction of CLM and subsequent influence over the growth and expansion of CLM globally led to his recognition in 2007, by PharmaVoice magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in pharma. Foreseeing the trends in Pharma that have impacted its selling model and the changing influence dynamic of payors on prescribing, Mr. Bavasso incubated a new and disruptive concept meant to serve as the transaction-fed, new marketplace for healthcare. This led to the incorporation of RIMEDIO, Inc. in October 2012 intent on reshaping the dynamic of how healthcare interacts and transacts to achieve mutual stakeholder objectives. RIMEDIO leverages the power of social utilities with eCommerce, content management and communications tools to consummate transactions between healthcare stakeholders. He is currently co-founder and CEO of nQ Medical, Inc., a machine learning computational biomarker company leveraging keyboard data to manage neuromotor diseases. Everyone has a unique typing signature. Research has revealed that the way we interact with computers and mobile devices can reveal with startling accuracy the presence of certain neuro-motor diseases. This Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovered/Michael J. Fox Foundation validated artificial intelligence tool (neuroQWERTY) has opened a broad opportunity to better diagnose diseases, track disease progression, and monitor medication effectiveness and symptoms. Mr. Bavasso is also a licensed hospital administrator having served from 1981 to 1992 leading two health care systems in New England. A graduate of Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, he received his MBA in health care management and finance from Bryant University, Smithfield, RI.
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About nQ Medical: nQ Medical is a neurotechnology company allowing Data Defined Disease Management via digital biomarkers using AI.
Alexander Klibanov
Co-Founder of Pulmatrix
Alexander Klibanov is the Novartis Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alexander’s research interests include enzyme chemistry and biotechnology, protein drug delivery and formulation, stability and stabilization of pharmaceutical proteins and biochemistry in extreme environments. Alexander is a Member of the National Academy of Science and is known for greatly advancing the field of non-aqueous enzymology, the development methods for allowing enzymes to function in media such as organic solvents, rather than water. Alexander has authored over 270 scientific papers and has 16 issued U.S. patents. Alexander has given over 350 invited presentations and is a member of eight journal editorial boards. Alexander has received numerous prestigious professional awards including the Leo Friend Award, the Ipatieff Prize, the Marvin J. Johnson Award and the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, all from the American Chemical Society, as well as the International Enzyme Engineering Award. Dr. Klibanov is a member of both the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. In addition, Alexander has started several biotechnology companies and has been a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board at BIND Therapeutics and SiO2 Medical Products.
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About Arsia Therapeutics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pulmatrix: Pulmatrix develops inhaled therapies for the treatment, prevention and transmission of infectious and progressive respiratory diseases.
Tony Kouzarides
Co-Founder of Storm Therapeutics
Tony Kouzarides is Founder at Chroma Therapeutics. He is Co-Founder at Abcam.
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About Abcam, Cambridge Gravity, Chroma Therapeutics, Milner Therapeutics Institute, Storm Therapeutics, University of Cambridge: Targeting pathways that modify RNA to deliver novel cancer therapeutics
Eric Miska
Co-Founder of Storm Therapeutics
Eric is the Herchel Smith Professor of Molecular Genetics and a Senior Group Leader at the Gurdon Institute at the University of Cambridge. He has an appointment as associated faculty at the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute. Eric was an EMBO Young Investigator and is a full member of EMBO since 2012. Eric is the 2013 recipient of the Hooke Medal awarded by the British Society of Cell Biology. He joined the faculty of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton in 2014 and is a Senior Investigator of the Wellcome Trust. Eric studied mathematics, physics and biology at Heidelberg, Berlin and Mainz and holds a BA in Biochemistry from Trinity College, Dublin. He received his PhD in Pathology from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2000, working with Professor Tony Kouzarides, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Nobel laureate Bob Horvitz at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA from 2000 to 2004. He started his own research group at the Gurdon Institute in 2005.
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About Storm Therapeutics, University of Cambridge: Targeting pathways that modify RNA to deliver novel cancer therapeutics
Eric Schott
Co-Founder, Head of Translational Research and Clinical Development of Solarea Bio
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About Solarea Bio: Solarea Bio develops microbial therapeutics aimed to treat indications derived from chronic inflammation to aid human health.
David R. Elmaleh
Scientific Founder, CEO and Chairman of AZTherapies
David R. Elmaleh is the founder of [Mersana Therapeutics](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mersana-therapeutics#/entity). Previously, he served as the chairman and president of AZTherapies. Elmaleh obtained a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and physics, and master’s degree and PhD in organic chemistry from Hebrew University.
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About AZTherapies, Mersana Therapeutics: AZTherapies is a clinical stage biotech company developing breakthrough treatments for neuroinflammation-related diseases.
Dario Campana
Scientific Founders of Cogent Biosciences
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About Cogent Biosciences: Cogent Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company that develops therapies for solid cancer tumors.
M. Charles Liberman
Founder of Decibel Therapeutics
M. Charles Liberman is the Schuknecht Professor of Otology and Laryngology at the Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear, one of the largest and best-known research groups devoted to the study of hearing and deafness. The laboratory comprises 27 investigators, with research foci spanning all aspects of the auditory system from sound transmission in the middle ear, through signal transduction in the inner ear and neural processing in the central nervous system. Dr. Liberman received his B.A. in Biology from Harvard College in 1972 and his Ph.D. in Physiology from Harvard Medical School in 1976. He has been on the faculty at Harvard since 1979, has published over 160 papers on a variety of topics in auditory neuroscience and is the recipient of the Award of Merit from the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, the Carhart Award from the American Auditory Society and Bekesy Silver Medal from the Acoustical Society of America. His research interests include 1) coding of acoustic stimuli as neural responses, 2) efferent feedback control of the auditory periphery, 3) mechanisms underlying noise-induced hearing loss, 4) the signaling pathways mediating nerve survival in the inner ear and 5) application of cell- and drug-based therapies to the repair of a damaged inner ear.
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About Decibel Therapeutics: Decibel Therapeutics is a hearing company focused on discovering and developing new medicines to protect, repair, and restore hearing.
Gabriel Corfas
Founder of Decibel Therapeutics
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About Decibel Therapeutics, University of Michigan, University of Michigan Medical School: Decibel Therapeutics is a hearing company focused on discovering and developing new medicines to protect, repair, and restore hearing.
Martin Jefson
Co-Founder, CSO of Rodin Therapeutics
Marty is chief scientific officer and co-founder of Rodin Therapeutics and Ataxion. Prior to joining Atlas Venture, Marty spent 27 years at Pfizer, most recently serving as head of neuroscience research. More than 30 development candidates were discovered during his tenure, including veranicline (Chantix), a widely used product for the treatment of nicotine addiction.
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About Ataxion, Pinteon Therapeutics, Rodin Therapeutics: Rodin Therapeutics develops novel therapeutics for neurological disorders by applying insights of epigenetics.
Anthony Hyman
Co Founder of Dewpoint Therapeutics
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About Dewpoint Therapeutics: Dewpoint Therapeutics is a biotech company developing a drug platform that targets biomolecular condensates.
Allan M. Fox
Co-Founder of Dimension Therapeutics
Allan M. Fox is the founder and a partner of FoxKiser since 1986. He is specialized in identifying and enhancing business opportunities and improving competitive market positions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Fox provided his services as the director of Dimension Therapeutics from 2013 to 2015. He has also held the same position at REGENX Biosciences. Fox holds a degree in law, science, and medicine from Yale Law School. He also obtained a juris doctorate and bachelor’s degree from Temple University.
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About Dimension Therapeutics, FoxKiser: Dimension Therapeutics is a gene therapy company developing novel treatments for rare diseases.
Heather Fairhead
Founder & CEO of Phico Therapeutics
Dr Fairhead has over 17 years’ experience directing research teams in a variety of disciplines and has led Phico in developing SASPject technology from a concept through a Phase I clinical trial. Prior to her scientific career, Heather worked for 10 years in sales and marketing in a wide range of industries.
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About Phico Therapeutics: Phico Therapeutics is a developer of novel platform technology designed to overcome antibacterial resistance.
George Foot
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Sixfold Bioscience
George Foot is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO at Sixfold Bioscience.
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About Sixfold Bioscience: Sixfold Bioscience develops and researches on biotechnology advances for RNA therapies.
Richard Gregory
Founder of Twentyeight-Seven Therapeutics
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Co-Director, HMS Initiative for RNA Medicine
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About Twentyeight-Seven Therapeutics: Twentyeight-Seven Therapeutics is a developer of microRNAs designed to target regulatory proteins.
Jason Gardner
CEO, President & Co-Founder of Magenta Therapeutics
Jason is CEO, President and Cofounder of Magenta Therapeutics, a biotechnology company created to transform stem cell transplantation. He joined Atlas Venture as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence to create Magenta, working with Third Rock Ventures. He has held leadership roles in pharma and biotech over 18 years, where he most recently established and ran the GSK R&D Satellite in Boston. He also created and led the Regenerative Medicine Discovery Performance Unit, a global team across R&D that established the stem cell gene therapy programs in pharma and ran multiple collaborations. Jason joined GSK in 2005 following eight years in the biotech arena to become a member of the lapatinib clinical team that led to the successful new drug application file for Tykerb in breast cancer in 2007. He then joined the CEEDD, later leading Research and Alliance Management, where new alliances were established with multiple biotech companies. In 2009, he created the Stem Cell DPU to deliver on the therapeutic and platform promise in regenerative medicine. Under his stewardship, the stem cell gene therapy alliance was formed with Fondazione Telethon, one of the biggest biomedical charitable foundations in Italy, and GSK’s Rare Disease Unit, and the team spearheaded GSK’s collaboration with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Jason was educated at Cambridge University where he received B.A. and M.A. degrees in Natural Sciences. He completed his Ph.D. at Oxford University and was a Research Fellow in Medicine at Harvard University.
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About Magenta Therapeutics: Magenta Therapeutics is a new biotechnology company developing therapeutics that unlock the power of stem cell biology.
Jianzhu Chen
Co-Founder of Galenea
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About Galenea: Galenea is engaged in developing therapeutics for central nervous system diseases.
Benjamin Seckler
Founder of Akashi Therapeutics
Benjamin Seckler, MD (a.k.a. Charley’s father) is President of the Board of Directors for Charley’s Fund. He leads the organization’s efforts to identify the most promising opportunities for Charley’s Fund to accelerate research. Ten years in, Dr. Seckler shares his thoughts on the role Charley’s Fund plays within the changing Duchenne landscape and how he thinks about achieving results.
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About Akashi Therapeutics: Akashi Therapeutics is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company.
Laurence Rahme
Scientific Founder of Spero Therapeutics
Laurence RahmeLaurence Rahme, MS, PhD, is the Scientific Founder of Spero Therapeutics in Cambridge.
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About Harvard Medical School, Spero Therapeutics: Spero Therapeutics is developing first in class therapeutics for treatment of Gram-negative infections.
Olga Granaturova
Co-Founder, COO, and Director of Parthenon Therapeutics
Olga Granaturova is the Co-Founder, COO, and Director at Parthenon Therapeutics.
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About Parthenon Therapeutics: Parthenon Therapeutics is a biotech company inventing a novel class of anti-cancer therapies that reprogram the tumor microenvironment.
Timur Yusufzai
Founder and Fellow of MOMA Therapeutics
Timus Yusufzai is the Co-Founder and Fellow at MOMA Therapeutics.
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About MOMA Therapeutics: MOMA Therapeutics operates as a biotechnology company.
Rod Richards
Founder, CEO of VHSquared
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About VHSquared: VHsquared is dedicated to the development of novel antibody domains engineered to be stable in the GI tract.
Gleb Kuznetsov
Co-Founder and CEO of Manifold Bio
Gleb Kuznetsov is the Co-Founder and CEO at Manifold Bio.
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About Manifold Bio: Manifold Bio is building a protein barcoding platform to bring the power of multiplexed measurement.
Pierce Ogden
Co-Founder and CSO of Manifold Bio
Pierce Ogden is the Co-Founder and CSO at Manifold Bio.
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About Manifold Bio: Manifold Bio is building a protein barcoding platform to bring the power of multiplexed measurement.
Jason Carroll
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Azeria Therapeutics
Jason has a long track record in defining hormone dependent cancer and the study of transcription factors in cancer. Jason has published in leading journals, including Nature, Cell, Nature Genetics and is on the editorial board for numerous journals. He trained in Australia, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, Boston and has been faculty at Cancer Research UK (CRUK), University of Cambridge since 2006, where he is currently a Director of Research. He is the recipient of the AACR Outstanding Investigator award (2013), the Louis-Jeantet Foundation Award (2014) and is a member of EMBO and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He was elected as a Komen Scholar in 2016.
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About Azeria Therapeutics: Azeria Therapeutics is a developer of a cancer drug intended to aid in the treatment of breast and prostate cancer patients.
Billy Boyle
CEO and Co-Founder of Owlstone Nanotech
Since co-founding Owlstone, Billy has been overseeing the development and implementation of the detection technology with nanotechnology foundry partners. He is also active in business development, demonstrating to partners how the Owlstone technology can used to realise a paradigm shift in detection applications and deployment scenarios. Billy is heavily involved in the creation and realisation of new technologies and IP. Prior to joining Owlstone Billy was a Research Associate in the Microsystems and Nanotech group at Cambridge University. In an academic / industry consortium he designed and developed silicon-opto hybrid devices for next generation telecoms systems.
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About Owlstone Nanotech: OWLSTONE is a platform technology, where regardless of the application, hardware remains the same & the app is enabled through software.
Mark Murcko
Founder of Relay Therapeutics
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About Relay Therapeutics: Relay therapeutics is a developer of an allosteric drug-discovery platform intended to apply computational techniques to protein motion.
