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This list showcases the top Cambridge based CEO’ operating in the Biotechnology space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Kevin Lee
Chief Executive Officer of Bicycle Therapeutics
Kevin Lee, Ph.D., MBA, is chief executive officer of Bicycle Therapeutics. Kevin joined Bicycle Therapeutics from Pfizer, where he served as senior vice president and chief scientific officer of the Rare Disease Research Unit. In that role, he held responsibility for more than 20 novel programmes across the full spectrum of research and development, established Pfizer’s rare disease strategy, conceptualized and implemented the company’s gene therapy strategy with the creation of the Genetic Medicine Institute and founded the Rare Disease Research Consortium. Prior to joining Pfizer, Kevin worked at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and, in addition to leading the formation of multiple strategic commercial and academic partnerships, he led epigenetics research and was responsible for the creation of the EpiNova Discovery Performance Unit. Before joining GSK, he lectured at Warwick University Medical School and founded Cambridge Biotechnology (acquired by Biovitrum) and Neurosolutions. Kevin studied pharmaceutical sciences at Nottingham University followed by a Ph.D. in pharmacology at Cambridge University. He undertook postdoctoral training as a Wellcome Trust International Prize Fellow before joining the Parke Davis Research Unit in Cambridge, U.K. Kevin is an author on over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications, has an MBA from Warwick Business School and has been awarded an honorary Chair in Molecular Pharmacology from the University of Warwick.
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About Bicycle Therapeutics: Bicycle Therapeutics is developing a technology for the creation of new generation biotherapeutics.
Chris Mirabelli
President & CEO of Leap Therapeutics
Dr. Mirabelli has served as the Chairman of our Board of Directors since 2016 and has also served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since our inception in 2011. Dr. Mirabelli has been a managing director of HealthCare Ventures LLC since 2000. From December 1999 to May 2000, Dr. Mirabelli served as president of pharmaceutical research and development and member of the board of directors of Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., following its merger with LeukoSite Inc., where Dr. Mirabelli had been serving as president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors since 1993. He was a co-founder of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: IONS), where he held several positions including senior vice president of research, from 1989 until 1993. Dr. Mirabelli started his career at SmithKline and French Laboratories (now part of GlaxoSmithKline Plc) R&D Division. He is a member of the board of advisors of the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator Fund at Harvard Medical School and the Boston Biomedical Innovation Center. Dr. Mirabelli is a member of the Board of Trustees of Guilford College. He received his Ph.D. in molecular pharmacology from Baylor College of Medicine and a B.S. degree in biology from State University of New York at Fredonia.
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About Leap Therapeutics: Leap Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company.
Rachel E. Haurwitz
Co-founder, President & CEO of Caribou Biosciences
Rachel is a co-founder of Caribou Biosciences and has been President and CEO since its inception. She has a research background in CRISPR-Cas biology, and is also a co-founder of Intellia Therapeutics. Rachel is an inventor on several patents and patent applications covering multiple CRISPR-derived technologies, and she has co-authored scientific papers in high impact journals characterizing CRISPR-Cas systems. In 2014, she was named by Forbes Magazine to the “30 Under 30” list in Science and Healthcare, and in 2016, Fortune Magazine named her to the “40 Under 40” list of the most influential young people in business. Rachel earned an A.B. in Biological Sciences from Harvard College, and received a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Caribou Biosciences: Caribou Biosciences is a biotechnology company that develops CRISPR technologies and allogenic cell therapies for oncology.
Noubar Afeyan
Founder & CEO of Flagship Pioneering
Noubar Afeyan is Founder, Senior Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Flagship Ventures, a leading early stage venture capital firm. Noubar also leads the firm’s VentureLabs unit that invents and launches transformative startups. Noubar is a Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management where he has taught courses on technology-entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership since 2000. Noubar lectures widely in the United States and internationally on diverse topics ranging from entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital to biological engineering, drug discovery, medical technologies and renewable energy. During his 28-year career as inventor, entrepreneur, CEO and venture capitalist, Noubar has co-founded and helped build over 35 successful life science and technology startups. Noubar was Founder and Chief Executive Officer at PerSeptive Biosystems, a leader in the bio-instrumentation field that grew to over $100M in annual sales within six years from its first sales. After PerSeptive’s acquisition by Perkin Elmer/Applera Corporation in 1998, Noubar was Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer of Applera, where he initiated and oversaw the creation of Celera Genomics. Currently Noubar serves on a number of public and private company boards including CiBO Technologies, Epiva BioSciences, Evelo BioSciences, Joule Unlimited, Kaleido BioSciences, Moderna Therapeutics, Pronutria Biosciences and Seres Therapeutics. Previously, Noubar was a Member of the founding team, Director and Investor in several highly successful ventures including Chemgenics Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Millennium Pharmaceuticals), Color Kinetics (acquired by Philips), Adnexus Therapeutics (acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb) and Affinnova (acquired by AC Nielsen). Noubar received a Technology Pioneer 2012 award from the World Economic Forum in recognition of the breakthrough solar fuel technology being developed at Joule Unlimited. Noubar has served as Chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Chemicals, Advanced Materials and Biotechnology of the World Economic Forum as well as being a member of the Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies. Noubar is a Member of the Board of Overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he serves on the board of AmeriaBank and of UWC Dilijan International School, both of Armenia. Previously, Noubar was a Co-Founder and Member of the Board of Directors at National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia, a private-public partnership dedicated to promoting economic development in the former Soviet Republic of Armenia. In 2008 Noubar received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, an award granted to outstanding Americans who have distinguished themselves as United States citizens and who have enabled their ancestry groups to maintain their identities while becoming integral parts of American life. Noubar has authored numerous scientific publications and patents since earning his Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from MIT in 1987. Cygnal is a best-in-class team of biomedical experts and leaders collaborating to revolutionize how the world treats diseases.
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About BIND Therapeutics, Cogen Therapeutics, Cygnal Therapeutics, Ensemble Therapeutics, Flagship Pioneering, Generate Biomedicines, Harvard Business School, Indigo, Joule Unlimited Technologies, Laronde, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Moderna Therapeutics, Omega Therapeutics, Permeon Biologics, Ring Therapeutics, Rubius Therapeutics, Seres Therapeutics: Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
Simba Gill
President & CEO of Evelo Biosciences
Simba Gill, PhD is an entrepreneur, investor and CEO who believes passionately that science and globalization will dramatically improve life in the 21st century. Dr. Gill is currently the CEO of Evelo, Sr. Partner at Flagship Ventures, and Executive Chair of Blackfynn. Dr. Gill founded or had lead roles in moksha8, Epirus, Maxygen, Verdia, Avidia, Codexis, Systemix and Valentis, four of these companies have been taken public and three were acquired through strategic trade sales. Exit valuations were between $400M – $6B. Dr. Gill has also led, built and launched several commercial businesses/products generating annual revenues of between $150M-$2B. Dr. Gill has founded and/or had lead roles in pioneering companies in the fields of antibodies, stem cells, directed molecular evolution, immunodiagnostics and the cancer microbiome. He has also been an investor, advisor, founder and CEO of several emerging market life science companies. Dr. Gill was a Partner at TPG, focused on investments in Life Sciences and Emerging Markets. Early in his career, Dr. Gill was co-head of Worldwide Marketing for Recormon. He also led corporate and market development and strategy from inception to commercialization of the Elecsys system, which became one of the world’s most widely used immunodiagnostic platforms. Dr. Gill served on the Board of Directors of the Tuberculosis Alliance, The Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the International Advisory Board of INSEAD. Dr. Gill was also the founder of Dispatches, an in-depth written and photojournalism periodical focused on key global issues. Dr. Gill has an MBA from INSEAD and carried out his PhD with focus on developing humanized antibodies to treat cancer. This work was done at King’s College, London in collaboration with the LMB at Cambridge and Celltech.
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About Epiva, Evelo Biosciences, moksha8 Pharmaceuticals, TPG Growth: Evelo Biosciences is dedicated to improving the lives of patients globally through the development of monoclonal microbials.
Andrew Beck
Co-founder & CEO of PathAI
Andrew Beck earned a Bachelors of Arts in History from Brown University in 2002 and completed a Masters of Medical Science in Biostatistics and a Medical Degree from Brown Medical School in 2006. He completed his residency in Anatomic Pathology and clinical fellowship in Molecular Genetic Pathology from Stanford in 2010.He then joined the Advanced Residency Training at Stanford program and completed a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University in 2013, working with Professor Daphne Koller. In 2011, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Departmet of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 2016, he was promoted to Associate Professor. In 2016, Dr Beck co-founded PathAI, a company that develops artificial intelligence technology for pathology, where he serves as President and CEO.
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About Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, PathAI: PathAI is developing technology that assists pathologists in making rapid and accurate diagnoses for every patient, every time.
Aoife Brennan
CEO of Synlogic
Aoife Brennan joined Synlogic in September 2016 as chief medical officer and is responsible for the oversight and direction of the company’s clinical development strategy and operations. Aoife previously spent six years at Biogen, where she was in roles of increasing responsibility and most recently served as vice president and head of the Rare Disease Innovation Unit, which included programs ranging from pre-clinical to commercial. She has also led programs across multiple therapeutic areas including the late phase development of nusinersen for spinal muscular atrophy and ALPROLIX™ and ELOCTATE™, treatments for Hemophilia B and Hemophilia A. Prior to joining Biogen, she was director of clinical development at Tolerx, a start-up biotech company focusing on immunotherapy for Type 1 diabetes. Aoife holds a medical degree from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and has completed post-graduate training in internal medicine, endocrinology and metabolism. She has completed post-doctoral training in clinical research and metabolism at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and is a graduate of the Harvard Medical School Scholars in Clinical Science Program.
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About Synlogic: Synlogic is a biotechnology company that develops synthetic biotic medicines to perform metabolic functions to treat diseases.
Nick Davis
Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Theonys
Nick Davis is the Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of Theonys — a therapeutics company developing new small-molecule medicines to selectively stop the translation of disease-causing proteins in cancer, chronic inflammation and other serious human diseases.
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About Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Theonys: Theonys is harnessing the power of tRNA to pioneer an entirely new class of genomic medicines.
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.
Liang Schweizer
Co-founder, President and CEO of HiFiBiO
Liang Schweizer is the Co-founder, President and CEO of HiFiBiO Therapeutics. Previously, she co-founded Harbour Biomed and served as its CSO, successfully transforming a technology platform company to an antibody drug discovery enterprise. Before launching her entrepreneurial career, Liang served as Head of Asian Cancer Research at Sanofi, advancing Sanofi’s Asia-Pacific oncology pipeline as well as contributing to global oncology programs from preclinical to clinical efforts. Before joining Sanofi, Liang Schweizer was a director at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, heading a group of scientists at Leads Discovery and Optimization (LDO), overseeing 60+ in vitro pharmacology projects across different therapeutic areas. Under her leadership, the team made significant contributions to 4 marketed drugs and impacted over 20 clinical candidates. She is also a co-inventor of multiple BMS Immunoncology (IO) clinical candidates. Liang Schweizer graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) majoring in Biology. She received her Master’s degree in Microbial Engineering at the University of Minnesota with minor in Chemical Engineering. Liang earned her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University in Zurich, Switzerland. Her postdoctoral training was with Dr. Harold Varmus, a Nobel Laureate, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), New York.
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About HiFiBiO: HiFiBiO provides proprietary single cell technologies for applications in drug and biomarker discovery and development.
Michel Vounatsos
Chief Executive Officer of Biogen Idec
Michel Vounatsos is Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Biogen. Michel brings extensive global biopharmaceutical experience and a track record of innovative stakeholder engagement to his leadership of the company’s commercial organization. Michel joined Biogen in 2016 after a 20 career at Merck, where he most recently served as President, Primary Care Business Line and Merck Customer Centricity. In this role, he led Merck’s global primary care business unit, a role which encompassed Merck’s cardiology-metabolic, general medicine, women’s health and biosimilars groups, and developed and instituted a strategic framework for enhancing the company’s relationships with key constituents, including the most significant providers, payers and retailers and the world’s largest governments. Michel previously held leadership positions across Europe and in China for Merck. Earlier in his career, Michel held management positions at Ciba-Geigy. Michel received his C.S.C.T. certificate in Medicine from the Universite Victor Segalen, Bordeaux II, France, and his M.B.A. from the HEC School of Management in Paris.
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About Biogen Idec: Biogen Idec is an American biotechnology company that provides therapeutics for neurological, autoimmune, and rare diseases.
Bicheng Han
CEO of BrainCo
Bicheng Han is the founder and CEO of Brainco. He founded the company in 2014. A year after, Han founded BrainRobotics. Han earned his PhD from Harvard University, Center of Brain Science. He is a brain science, medical device expert.
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About BrainCo, BrainRobotics, Harvard University: BrainCo strives to apply brain machine interface (BMI) and neurofeedback training to optimize the potential of the human brain.
Tom Simmons
Founder & CEO of Supplant
Tom has over 10 years of experience in carbohydrate biochemistry. He formerly held fellowships at the University of Cambridge and at the World Economic Forum and has advocated sugar reduction initiatives through Sky News and Channel 4 television appearances.
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About Cambridge Judge Business School, Supplant: Supplant is a biotechnology platform that makes sugar substitutes.
Tony Coles
Chairman and CEO of Yumanity Therapeutics
Anthony Coles was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Yumanity Therapeutics, LLC, a company focused on transforming drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases, in October 2014. Prior to this, from October 2013, Anthony Coles served as Chairman and CEO of TRATE Enterprises LLC, a privately-held company. Anthony Coles served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company (“Onyx”), from 2012 until 2013, having served as its President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of its board of directors from 2008 until 2012. Prior to joining Onyx in 2008, he was President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a public biopharmaceutical company (“NPS”). Before joining NPS in 2005, he served in various leadership positions in the biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industries, including at Merck & Co., Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. In addition to having previously served as a director of Onyx and NPS, he was formerly a director of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings and Campus Crest Communities, Inc. Anthony Coles has been a director of the Company since April 2014. He is a member of the Compensation Committee and the Finance Committee.
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About Yumanity Therapeutics: Yumanity Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that transforms drug discovery for diseases caused by protein misfolding.
Mark Kotter
Founder/CEO of bit.bio
Mark Kotter is the founder and CEO of bit.bio.
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About bit.bio: Bit.bio specializes in the fields of coding and biology that determine the identity of every human cell.
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.
Alec Nielsen
Founder & CEO of Asimov
Alec Nielsen is the Founder & CEO at Asimov.
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About Asimov: Asimov builds tools to program living cells.
Hugh O’Dowd
President & CEO of Neon Therapeutics
Neon Therapeutics’ chief executive officer, Hugh O’Dowd, joined the company in 2016, bringing more than 20 years of expertise in pharmaceutical leadership and moving important oncology therapies from clinical development through commercialization. Hugh joined Neon Therapeutics from Novartis Oncology, where he spent more than 20 years in a variety of leadership roles, including chief commercial officer and head of global strategy. In this role, he was responsible for global commercialization for the oncology portfolio, including global brand leadership, health economics and pricing, early phase commercial development, strategic capabilities, business development, and licensing and global sales excellence. Hugh began his career in pharmaceuticals in 1992 at Glaxo in sales, and moved to Novartis in 1996. Following a career of increasing levels of responsibility in sales and marketing, he took a leading role in the commercialization of Gleevec, and assumed country- and region-level commercial leadership roles before overseeing the entirety of Novartis Oncology commercialization and strategy in 2011. Since 2015, Hugh was country president and general manager of Novartis in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Hugh holds a B.A. from Loyola University Chicago, and an MBA from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University Chicago.
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About Neon Therapeutics: NEON Therapeutics is focused on unlocking the full potential of the immune system to recognize and attack cancer.
Hannah Sore
Founder and CEO of PharmEnable
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About PharmEnable: PharmEnable has developed a rapid and cost effective way to identify better chemical starting points to drive the discovery.
Shawn Marcell
Co-Founder, President & CEO of Torus Biosystems
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About Torus Biosystems: Torus Biosystems is a biotech startup that delivers molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases.
Romesh Subramanian
CEO and Founder of Dyne Therapeutics
Romesh Subramanian is the CEO and founder of Dyne Therapeutics.
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About Dyne Therapeutics: Dyne Therapeutics is a developer of targeted therapies intended for serious muscle diseases.
John Leonard
President , Chief Executive Officer & Member Board of Directors of Intellia Therapeutics
After a 30-year career in pharmaceutical R&D, John Leonard retired from his position as Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of Research and Development at AbbVie in 2013. Inspired by the opportunity to work with a new therapeutic modality and form a new company, he returned to his life’s passion and joined the Intellia team to direct the research and development effort to make CRISPR/Cas9 technology into a therapeutic reality. John is among the leading R&D executives who have led breakthrough medicines through their discovery, development and launch into blockbuster drugs. While serving as the Global Head of Pharmaceutical R&D at Abbott Laboratories, John oversaw the development of numerous novel therapeutics. His ground-breaking work with HIV protease inhibitors Norvir® and Kaletra® led to new treatment paradigms for AIDS, his years of work with Humira® made it the all-time top-selling drug worldwide, and he led significant growth of the R&D pipeline at Abbott and Abbvie. John’s teams were twice recognized with the prestigious Prix Galien Award for excellence in pharmaceutical research. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of Intellia, John serves on the Board of Directors of QuintilesIMS (NYSE:Q) and Chimerix (Nasdaq:CMRX). He received his M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine followed by a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health.
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About Intellia Therapeutics: Intellia Therapeutics is a genome editing company that develops curative gene-editing treatments.
Nagesh K. Mahanthappa
CEO of Scholar Rock
Nagesh Mahanthappa is a biotechnology entrepreneur with over 20 years of industry experience in roles spanning discovery research through early clinical development, as well as operations and strategy. Prior to Scholar Rock, Nagesh Mahanthappa was a founding employee and VP, Corporate Development at Avila Therapeutics, Inc. (acquired by Celgene Corporation in 2012). Avila discovered and developed novel covalent drugs for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune, and viral diseases. He was previously a founding employee of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, the first biotech established to discover RNA interference therapeutics and rose to VP, Scientific & Strategic Development. Earlier professional roles include business development at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and discovery research at Ontogeny (now Curis, Inc.) and Cambridge NeuroScience. He was also a founder of TwistDx, a DNA diagnostics company acquired by Inverness Medical Innovations (now Alere, Inc.) in 2010. Nagesh Mahanthappa received his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the California Institute of Technology, and post-doctoral training at the E.K. Shriver Center for Mental Retardation (then affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital) and Harvard Medical School. He received his MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Management at Babson College.
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About Scholar Rock: Scholar Rock is discovering and developing a new class of biologic therapies.
Paulina Chilarska
CEO & Founder of Cambridge Biolabs
Chilarska’s cutting-edge work at the University of Cambridge was funded by the prestigious 4-Year Wellcome Trust PhD award in Stem Cell Biology. Already at the age of 21 she worked with the Nobel Prize winner Sir Professor Paul Nurse on the cell cycle thus investigating the mechanisms underlying carcinogenesis. Dr Chilarska is an expert in the molecular basis of ageing and strongly believes that ageing is a disease which can be prevented and treated. She is currently wirting a book describing her revolutionary approach to Ageing Prevention and Ageing Reversal. She is fluent in five languages and has international consulting experience.
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About Cambridge Biolabs: Biotech-meets-tech startup developing personalised skincare solutions
Peter M. Hecht
Co-Founder & CEO of Cyclerion Therapeutics
Peter Hecht has served as Ironwood’s CEO and a director since co‐founding the company in 1998. He started Ironwood because he was attracted to “the idea of working with a team of people who challenge, inspire and humble me,” and building an enduring organization dedicated to creating important medicines. Under his leadership, Ironwood has grown from nine Ph.D. scientists to a fully‐integrated research, development and commercial organization. Prior to founding Ironwood, Peter was a research fellow at Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, an affiliate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He earned his Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of California at Berkeley as well as a B.S. in mathematics and an M.S. in biology from Stanford University.
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About Cyclerion Therapeutics: Cyclerion Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company.
Paulo Garcia
CEO & Co-Founder of Kytopen
Dr. Paulo A. Garcia co-invented the Flowfect™ technology while he was a Research Scientist at MIT. He is currently leading the development and commercialization efforts of the proprietary cell engineering platform for therapeutic and biotechnology applications.
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About Kytopen: Kytopen developer of a cell therapy platform for non-viral delivery of molecules into hard-to-transfect immune cells.
John Evans
CEO of Beam Therapeutics
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About ARCH Venture Partners, Beam Therapeutics: Beam Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing precision genetic medicines through the use of base editing technology.
Nick Morrell
CEO and co-Founder of Morphogen-IX
Nick is the British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiopulmonary Medicine at the University of Cambridge, based in the Department of Medicine. He has 25 years of experience working in the field of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), and is the Research Director of the National Pulmonary Hypertension Service at Papworth Hospital. His research spans clinical translational studies, experimental medicine, genetics, cell and molecular biology and preclinical models of disease. He has published over 200 papers in this field and is an internationally recognised authority on the pathobiology of PAH.
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About Morphogen-IX, Papworth Hospital, University of Cambridge: MORPHOGEN-IX Limited is a drug discovery company founded in 2015 by Index Ventures to develop bone morphogenetic proteins
Eric Kelsic
Founder & CEO of Dyno Therapeutics
Eric Kelsic is the Founder and CEO of Dyno Therapeutics. He is a graduate of Harvard University.
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About Dyno Therapeutics: Dyno Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that uses artificial intelligence for gene therapy.
Benedikt von Thungen
CEO of Sanome
I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of Sanome, thanks for stopping by. My academic background is in biosciences. Along with experience in building software companies, I am so excited about the interface of the two fields and how they will change the healthcare industry. I started my entrepreneurial journey during my undergraduate degree and have since built multiple companies across renewable energy, enterprise software, AI, drug discovery, and healthcare. I love building and scaling winning teams in exceptional companies. My long-term vision is to build a human digital twin (a virtual representation of everyone’s biology & health) that allows us to predict any changes to someone’s health before they actually occur, thus enabling true preventative healthcare.
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About Sanome: Transforming diagnostics for all
Frank Reynolds
Chairman of the Board, CEO, CFO, CSO & Co-Founder of PixarBio
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About PixarBio: PixarBio Corp is a specialty Biotechnology company focused on pre-clinical and commercial development of new products.
Frederic Chereau
President & CEO of LogicBio Therapeutics
Frederic Chereau joined LogicBio Therapeutics as President & CEO in 2016.
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About LogicBio Therapeutics: LogicBio Therapeutics is a gene therapy startup
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.
Diego Miralles
CEO of Vividion Therapeutics
Diego Miralles is the Chief Executive Officer at Vividion Therapeutics.
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About Flagship Pioneering, Laronde, Vividion Therapeutics: Vividion is a developer of a novel drug discovery platform designed to offer transformative treatments to patients with serious illnesses.
Jonah Kallenbach
Co-founder & CEO of Reverie Labs
Jonah Kallenbach is a Co-Founder and CEO at Reverie Labs. He attended Harvard University.
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About Reverie Labs: Reverie Labs is a machine learning-driven pharma company.
Tim Guilliams
Founder, CEO of Healx
Tim is a social entrepreneur passionate about delivering the next generation of therapeutics to rare disease patients in need. He is the Founder and Chief Executive of Healx and the Co-Founder and Chair of the Cambridge Rare Disease Network (CRDN), a charity aiming to foster dialogue and awareness around rare diseases in Cambridge, UK. Prior to Healx and CRDN, Tim worked on University-Industry interactions and cluster dynamics in the area of Life Sciences for the UK Government Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). He obtained his PhD in the field of Biophysical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, where his research related to the development of antibody fragments as novel biophysical and therapeutic tools for Parkinson’s disease. As a PhD student, Tim co-founded multiple successful student societies, including the Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE), and was involved with Innovation Forum, Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable (OBR) and the Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC). He is also a Junior Associate Fellow of the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP). Before moving to Cambridge, he obtained an MEng & BEng in Bio-Engineering from the University of Brussels (VUB).
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About Healx: Healx is an AI-powered, patient-inspired technology company, pioneering the next generation of drug discovery for rare diseases.
Andrew Lynn
Chief Executive Officer of Fluidic Analytics
Andrew Lynn is an entrepreneur and executive with a focus on early-stage life-sciences and technology opportunities. Andrew founded the regenerative medical device company Orthomimetics Ltd, based on his PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge. He then led the company as CEO from incorporation to successful trade-sale exit. During his tenure at Orthomimetics, the company raised £7.5 million in venture capital and grant funding, established commercial-scale manufacturing capabilities and brought the flagship product through pilot clinical trials to market. In 2009, he led a process that culminated in the successful sale of the company. Andrew Lynn subsequently led solid-state-lighting venture CamGaN Limited as CEO from the commencement of operations to a successful exit in 2012. His efforts have earned him recognition in Europe as an inaugural winner of a Science|Business Academic Enterprise Award and in the US as a member of Technology Review Magazine’s TR35 list of the world’s top young innovators, leaders and entrepreneurs.
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About Fluidic Analytics: Fluidic Analytics designs, develops and manufactures tools that seek to revolutionise the way proteins are characterised.
Steven L. Hoerter
President and CEO of Deciphera Pharmaceuticals
Steven L. Hoerter has served as our Senior Vice President, Commercial since August 2011. From 2010 to 2011, Steven Hoerter was General Manager and Management Center Head at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. for the Sub-Saharan Africa and Indian Ocean Region, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. From 2005 to 2010, Steven Hoerter held a variety of positions at Genentech, Inc., including serving on the senior leadership team for Genentech’s BioOncology business as Senior Director, Pipeline Development and Commercial Operations. Prior to that he worked at Chiron Corporation and Eli Lilly and Company. During Steven Hoerter’s 11-year career at Lilly, he held positions in sales, business development, marketing and business unit management in the US, Europe and Africa. Steven Hoerter has a B.A. in Russian and Political Science from Bucknell University, an M.B.A. from Tilburg University and a M.S. in Management from Purdue University.
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About Deciphera Pharmaceuticals: Deciphera Pharmaceuticals focuses on improving kinase inhibitor treatments.
Rodolphe Clerval
Chief Executive Officer of Coave Therapeutics
Chief Executive Officer at Coave Tx (formerly Horama).
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About Coave Therapeutics, Coave Therapeutics, Coave Therapeutics, ENTEROME, TcLand Expression: Horama develops gene therapies for rare inherited ocular and CNS (central nervous system) diseases.
Chris Torrance
Co-Founder and CEO of PhoreMost
Chris has significant oncology research and development experience, including six years as a senior manager at Cambridge-based pharmaceutical company, Vernalis. His principle expertise lies in cancer cell biology and drug discovery. In this field, he has led project teams taking drug targets from inception through to hit identification, lead optimisation and into preclinical studies. Chris holds a PhD from East Carolina University and completed a Post-Doctoral position in the world renowned oncology laboratory of Professor Bert Vogelstein (Johns Hopkins University) where he pioneered the use of X-MAN™ cancer models in high-throughput screening and drug discovery.
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About PhoreMost: PhoreMost is a new-model drug discovery company based in Cambridge, UK.
Trey Foskett
Co-Founder and CEO of Watchmaker Genomics
Trey Foskett is the Co-Founder and CEO of Watchmaker Genomics.
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About Watchmaker Genomics: Watchmaker Genomics is a biotechnology company that focuses on breakthrough applications for reading, writing, and editing DNA.
Thomas Weaver
Founder & CEO of PetMedix
Tom holds a PhD in Experimental Oncology and has served in a variety of research, technology development and commercial roles. He has a proven track record of creating value in highly successful start-up companies applying genome-based technologies and contract services for fundamental research, clinical, and drug discovery purposes. He has also led large infrastructure programs in genomics and animal model genetics, serving as a Director at the Medical Research Council (Oxford, UK). He trained at the University of Cambridge and MRC Lab for Molecular Biology (Cambridge, UK), and the University of Wisconsin Medical School, (Madison, USA).
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About PetMedix: PetMedix is a pet therapeutics startup.
John Lewandowski
CEO of Disease Diagnostic Group
John R. Lewandowski (Founder/CEO) is a PhD student at MIT in the Mechanosynthesis Group underneath Prof. John Hart, focusing on low-cost diagnostics leveraging the physics of microparticles, optics, magnetism, and self assembly. His interest in disease diagnostics goes back all the way to high school, where he was a two-time state champion in Disease Detectives in Science Olympiad. He graduated in 2012 from Case Western Reserve University with bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering, entrepreneurship, economics, and business management, continuing on with a Masters of Engineering and Management degree from CWRU. He has experience in medical device design and commercialization with internships at Cleveland Clinic, General Electric, CWRU, as well as a drug-delivery start-up Recon Therapeutics. He’s also been Managing Partner at Lew & Dowski Capital, LLC for the past four years, scaling a boutique investment fund based on an innovative supply and demand model in a niche market with a quickly growing NAV of $500,000. He has been recognized as a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow, a NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a Hertz Foundation Fellowship Finalist, a Tata Fellow, a Don Richards Fellow, a Tau Beta Pi Fellow, a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society, a Forbes 30 under 30 nominee, distinguished in Think Magazine’s 30 under Thirty and Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Thinkers, and a Lemelson-MIT Prize Inventor. He’s been an author on a dozen papers and holds one patent on drug reconstitution.
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About Disease Diagnostic Group, Lew & Dowski Capital: DDG is a pre-revenue medical device company specializing in the development of rapid, accurate, and inexpensive disease diagnostic tests.
Alan Hirzel
CEO of Abcam
Prior to joining Abcam, Alan spent 14 years with Bain & Company helping companies grow organically and through acquisition. Earlier in his career, he led product innovation efforts for several brands at Kraft Foods. He was trained as a life scientist and published research in plant biochemistry. He also has a passion for social enterprise as a trustee and was founder of the Social Business Trust, providing advice on how to grow and succeed with these enterprises to social entrepreneurs and government organisations globally. Alan brings the Abcam Board an impressive combination of a strong scientific background, global business and leadership experience as well as strong consumer knowledge. Alan has a keen focus on the consumer, helping Abcam’s strategic vision to be a successful global business by placing the customer at the heart of the business.
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About Abcam: An innovator in life science reagents and tools serving life science researchers globally to achieve their mission, faster.
Bo Cumbo
President & Chief Executive Officer of AavantiBio
Alexander Bo Cumbo, based in Greater Boston Area, is the Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Sarepta Therapeutics. He has a BS in Laboratory Technology from Auburn University. Formerly, Bo was on the Board of Ra Pharmaceuticals. Prior to his work with Sarepta, Bo served at Ra Pharmaceuticals. For more on Alexander Bo Cumbo, be sure to follow him online for the latest insights and updates.
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About AavantiBio: AavantiBio is a biopharmaceutical company that provides gene transfer and gene editing therapies to treat genetic diseases.
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.
Fabrice Chouraqui
Chief Executive Officer of Cellarity
Fabrice Chouraqui is the Chief Executive Officer at Cellarity.
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About Cellarity: Cellarity’s platform digitizes the molecular information in cells to elucidate how they behave in health and disease.
Donald Nicholson
CEO of Nimbus Therapeutics
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About Nimbus Therapeutics: Nimbus Discovery is now Nimbus Therapeutics to reflect our transition into a clinical stage company.
Jason Mellad
CEO of Start Codon
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About Start Codon: Translating disruptive research into successful start-ups, the Cambridge way
Caroline Loew
President & Chief Executive Officer of Glympse Bio
Caroline Loew is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Glympse Bio.
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About Glympse Bio: Glympse Bio is a biotechnology company that transforms disease detection and predict treatment response.
Todd Krueger
President & CEO of AOBiome
Todd Krueger is the Chief Executive Officer, President and a Director of our Company. He is primarily responsible for the overall management, corporate development and strategic planning of our Company and has been with the company since 2015. Mr. Krueger graduated from Northwestern University, United States, with a Bachelor of Economics degree with Highest Distinction, and earned his Master of Business Administration degree from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, United States. Prior to joining us, Mr. Krueger had over 20 years of experience in healthcare strategy, business development, operations and finance. He started his career as a consultant for Bain and Company, a management consulting firm, from 1990 to 1993, responsible for providing strategic analysis and solution implementation to Fortune 500 clients. In 1999, Mr. Krueger co-founded Fluidigm Corporation, which is principally engaged in the design, manufacture and sale of biological research equipment and is currently listed on NASDAQ (stock symbol FLDM), where he served as its chief financial officer and the vice-president of business development from 1999 to 2002, responsible for strategy development, finance, business development, and operations. From 2006 to 2013 he held various senior business development and strategy roles at Applied Biosystems Inc. and later Life Technologies Corporation (which was formed as a result of the merger between Applied Biosystems Inc. and Invitrogen Corporation in 2008)), where his last role was head of business development for molecular medicine. From 2013 to 2014, he was Chief Financial Officer of Claritas Genomics, Inc., a genetic diagnostics laboratory based in the United States, and from 2014 to 2015, he was the director of strategy and operations for the Broad Institute, a biomedical and genomic research center based in the United States. He was responsible for overseeing the commercialization of the genetics platform. Mr. Krueger also currently serves as a director of General Automation Laboratory Technologies, Inc. (GALT), a microbiome tools company based in the United States.
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About AOBiome: AOBiome is a life sciences company that focuses on transforming human health.
Briggs Morrison
CEO of Syndax Pharmaceuticals
Briggs W. Morrison, M.D., joined MPM in 2015. Briggs is CEO of Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an MPM portfolio company. Prior to joining Syndax and MPM, Briggs served as Chief Medical Officer and Executive VP for “Global Medicines Development” at AstraZeneca (ADR). Briggs’ career includes distinguished roles at AstraZeneca, Pfizer (PFE) and Merck (MRK). At AstraZeneca, he was head of global medicines development, where he oversaw all clinical development functions and late- stage clinical development projects. As Head of Clinical Development at Pfizer, he oversaw Phase I-III development and operations for all therapeutic areas before being appointed the head of Development, Medical Affairs, Safety and Regulatory Affairs for all Pfizer human health businesses. While serving as head of Oncology Development at Merck, Briggs oversaw the development and approval of vorinostat (Zolinza ®) for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Briggs formerly served as Chairman of the Board of Transcelerate, an industry-funded company charged with improving aspects of clinical trials. Briggs received his BS (Biology) degree from Georgetown University and his MD degree from the University of Connecticut, and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and additional post-doctoral work at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Briggs trained in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and in Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
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About MPM Capital, Syndax Pharmaceuticals: Syndax Pharmaceuticals focuses on developing an HDAC inhibitor for solid tumors and hematological tumors.
Michael Schrader
Co-Founder & CEO of Vaxess Technologies
Michael Schrader is the CEO and co-founder of Vaxess Technologies, a company revolutionizing global health by creating heat-stable vaccines. Vaxess strives to not only lower the cost of vaccine distribution, but also increase access to life-saving products for people around the world. The company was the winner of the 2013 MassTLC Innovative Life Science Technology of the Year, 2012 Harvard Business Plan Competition and The 2012 Harvard President’s Challenge for Social Entrepreneurship. Prior to founding Vaxess, Michael worked at Google, Toyota, and Honda where he has earned fifteen patents. He holds a BSME from Purdue University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Harvard University, MassChallenge, Vaxess Technologies: Vaxess Technologies engages in developing biomedical innovations with a focus on improving access to vaccines.
Alexander Patto
Chief Executive Officer of Waterscope
Alexander Patto and Tianheng Zhao founded Waterscope in 2015, since which Alexander has been serving as its chief executive officer.
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About Waterscope: Waterscope is a not-for-profit impact-defined company based in Cambridge.
Ruchi Sharma
Founder and CEO of Stemnovate
Ruchi Sharma is driven by her passion for taking the benefits of research, and applying them to products and technology in order to make a significant and positive difference in the real world. Alongside over ten years experience in stem cell research, physiology, and biotechnology, Ruchi Sharma obtained a PhD from the world-renowned Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a post-doctorate in the exciting field of cellular reprogramming at the University of Cambridge.
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About Stemnovate: Drug Screening and Safety Testing Platforms
Mohammed Fotouhi
CEO of Rite Taste
Mohammed Fotouhi is the CEO at Rite Taste, LLC.
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About Rite Taste: Rite Taste develops a graphene-based molecular diagnostics device that can detect allergens, pathogens, bacteria, and various proteins.
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.
Ulrik Nielsen
President and CEO of Tidal Therapeutics
Ulrik Nielsen is the President and CEO at Tidal Therapeutics.
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About Silver Creek Pharmaceuticals, Tidal Therapeutics: Tidal Therapeutics is a preclinical biotech company with a novel mRNA-based approach for reprogramming immune cells.
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.
Robert Coughlin
President and CEO of MassBioEd
Robert Coughlin is President and CEO of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council He is very familiar with all areas of the Massachusetts life sciences super cluster and is a passionate advocate for research and the biotechnology community. Coughlin has spent his career in both the public and private sectors, most recently serving as Undersecretary of Economic Development within Governor Deval Patrick’s administration. Prior to that, he was elected as State Representative to the 11th Norfolk district for three terms. In the legislature both healthcare and economic development were his priorities. In the world of business he specialized in the environmental services industry and moved on to capital management and venture capital. He has held senior executive positions in both fields He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy where he majored in Marine Engineering, and is a Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve. Coughlin has also been active in the community, having served on the boards of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. He has served as the honorary chairman of the Great Strides Cystic Fibrosis Walk since 1996. In years past, he co-chaired the Children’s Hospital Boston signature event, Champions for Children’s.
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About MassBioEd: MassBioEd is a non-profit organization committed to supporting science, technology, engineering, and math education.
Patrick Short
CEO & Co-Founder of Sano Genetics
Co-Founder and CEO of Heterogeneous, a genetic data sharing platform dedicated to providing researchers with access to high-quality and dynamic genetic and medical data while empowering users to own and control their own data. https://www.heterogeneous.co.uk/
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About Sano Genetics: Sano Genetics is a personalised medicine research platform with data privacy and transparency at its core.
Mick McLean
CEO of Atelerix
Mick is a chemist by training, a biologist by inclination and a businessman by experience, and is CEO for Atelerix. He’s led new ventures and start-up companies in drug discovery and development, pharmaceutical manufacturing, research tools and contract research, and is driven by commercialising great science and growing businesses. He’s easily enthralled by fervent winemakers and plans to own his own vineyard one day…
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About Atelerix, Atelerix: Atelerix provides storage and transportation of human cells at room temperature to companies.
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.
Adam Keeney
President & CEO of NodThera
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About NodThera: NodThera is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of new treatments for diseases.
Robert Ang
President and CEO of Vor Biopharma
Robert Ang is the president and CEO at Vor Biopharma.
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About Vor Biopharma: Vor Biopharma is an immuno-oncology company that develops therapies for treating cancer.
Alexis C. Wallace
President and Chief Executive Officer, Director and Co-founder of Thrombolytic Science International
Alexis Wallace has over 20 years of international business development and operational experience, including more than two decades with leading biopharmaceutical companies and ventures. Prior to joining TSI, Mr. Wallace was Executive Director of Medicine in Need, a not-for-profit biotechnology company funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. There, Mr. Wallace oversaw the development of an inhaled version of an anti-tuberculosis drug from pre-IND through phase I human clinical trials. Mr. Wallace was also a Principal in the Business Development arm of Puretech Ventures, where he created and grew the company’s European business. Mr. Wallace also served as the Director of Science Strategy at Genzyme Corporation, where he was instrumental in the establishment of major joint ventures resulting in three commercialized products. Mr. Wallace holds an undergraduate degree in Life Sciences from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; an MScEng in Organic Chemistry from École Supérieure de Chimie Industrielle de Lyon, France; and an MBA from the Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College. Mr. Wallace is a member of the Board of Directors of the Vascular Laboratory, Inc.
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About Thrombolytic Science International: Thrombolytic Science International develops a clot-dissolving therapy for stroke and other thrombotic diseases.
Tim Cheeseright
Chief Executive Officer of Torx Software
Tim Cheeseright is the director of product at Cresset Biomolecular Discovery.
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About Cresset, Torx Software: Torx Software is a platform for small molecule discovery chemistry.
Jennifer Barnett
CEO of Monument Therapeutics
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About Cambridge Cognition, Monument Therapeutics: Monument Therapeutics develops products to treat serious diseases of the central nervous system.
Erik Gatenholm
Co-Founder & CEO of Cellink
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About BICO, Cellink: Cellink is a biotechnology company optimized bench-top bioprinter for the ultimate bioprinting of human tissues.
Michael Chen
Co-founder and CEO of Nuclera
Michael Chen is the Co-founder and CEO at Nuclera.
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About Nuclera: Nuclera makes biology accessible through desktop enzymatic protein and gene synthesis.
Ben Pellegrini
Chief Executive Officer of Intellegens
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About Intellegens: Cambridge spin out using Deep Learning to train on big, incomplete data. Currently working in drug discovery and material design.
Matt Angel
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Factor Bioscience
Matt Angel is the Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Factor Bioscience.
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About Factor Bioscience, Novellus: Factor Bioscience is building the future of regenerative medicine by targeting and repairing the molecular origins of disease.
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.
Antony Rix
CEO of Granta Innovation
An entrepreneur with an engineering background, Antony has spent over 20 years working in telecommunications, wireless technology, medical devices and product development. He started his career at a major telecoms research laboratory, then co-founded Psytechnics, a spin-out commercialising network quality assessment and monitoring technology. He then spent more than a decade at TTP, the leading technology and product development consultancy, before joining 8power as co-founder and CEO. He is currently founder and CEO at Lucida Medical, developing AI for cancer screening using MRI.
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About Lucida Medical: Research, consulting and development of AI and ML applications in business and healthcare
Huw Jones
Chief Executive Officer & Executive Chairman of Chronos Therapeutics
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About Chronos Therapeutics, Evgen Pharma: Chronos Therapeutics is a drug development company focused on the development of drugs for the treatment of age-related diseases.
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.
Frank F. Craig
CEO of Sphere Fluidics
Dr Frank F. Craig has around 15 years of international, general management experience gained from GlaxoSmithKline, Amersham Biosciences (as a Vice-President of R&D) and several start-up firms. He was responsible for managing product development of Green Fluorescent Protein (first identified by the 2008 Nobel Prize Winners for Chemistry) and many other cell-based products and services for the Life Sciences industry. Frank was a (co)-Founder of Aurora Biosciences (San Diego, USA), which had a peak market cap. of £1.8 billion and was acquired by Vertex Pharmaceuticals for £420 million. He was also a co-Founder and CEO of Smart Holograms (Cambridge, UK) – named as the UK’s Fastest Growing Company. Frank has raised £22 million in Private Equity, £25 million via an IPO on NASDAQ and has delivered many commercial partnerships with global Life Sciences and Energy firms – resulting in recorded deal values of £180 million. He has been a Board Director of Smart Holograms and TekCel (Hopkinton, USA), and helped form Sphere Fluidics before becoming its CEO in May 2010. He has a PhD in Cell Biology and Microbiology from Glasgow University and an MBA from Warwick Business School.
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About BioChannel Partners, Sphere Fluidics: Sphere Fluidics develops products for use in single cell analysis and characterization, and provides associated collaborative R&D services.
Ben Shaw
CEO of Swift Molecular Diagnostics
Benjamin completed his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford. He was then accepted onto the prestigious Wellcome Trust PhD Studentship for Developmental Biology at the University of Cambridge. He is now strengthening his business knowledge through active engagement with the Accelerate Programme at the Cambridge Judge Business School. This makes him an ideal candidate to communicate the science and the business to potential investors and buyers, in addition to his scientific role within the company.
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About Swift Molecular Diagnostics: Swift Molecular Diagnostics is developing a rapid, easy-to-use, cost effective genetic “yes or no” test.
Matthew Gregory
Chief Executive Officer of Isomerase Therapeutics
Matthew is an experienced drug discovery professional skilled in programme management and intellectual property rights protection. He has particular experience of anti-infective drug discovery and was previously Director of Intellectual Property and Project Management at Biotica Technology Ltd. At Biotica he managed the intellectual property and collaborative research on internal projects from 2005-2013, with particular therapeutic focus in infectious diseases, inflammation and oncology. In doing so, he was also responsible for segregating internal programmes from collaborative research. Matthew was the project leader of the company’s flagship cyclophilin inhibitor program, which was focused on development of a high barrier to resistance backbone therapy for treatment of HCV, HBV and HIV. Matthew joined Biotica in 2003, having been involved with the company since 1999 when he was at the University of Cambridge working on production of novel rapamycin analogues and genetic manipulation of the biosynthetic pathway in Professor Peter Leadlay’s group. Matthew has almost 20 years of experience in actinomycete genetics, is an author or inventor on over 30 patents, patent applications or publications and holds a BSc in Biochemistry and Genetics and a PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of Nottingham.
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About Isomerase Therapeutics: Isomerase Therapeutics is an agile drug discovery and development company.
David S. Barlow
CEO of Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals
David S. Barlow is CEO of Molecular InsightPharmaceuticals Inc.
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About : Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the emerging field of molecular medicine.
Andrew Baker Campbell
CEO of LEX Diagnostics
Andrew Baker-Campbell is the CEO of LEX Diagnostics.
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About LEX Diagnostics: LEX Diagnostics is a medical device company that specializes in molecular diagnostics for primary care.
Andrew Baker Campbell
CEO of LEX Diagnostics
Andrew Baker-Campbell is the CEO of LEX Diagnostics.
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About LEX Diagnostics: LEX Diagnostics is a medical device company that specializes in molecular diagnostics for primary care.
