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Synthetic biologists.
Immunologists.
Data scientists.
Together, we’re making designer mRNA drugs to
cure serious illnesses
.
Drugs that
leverage
our
immune system
rather than work against it. Drugs that are more
accessible
to more people. Drugs that
put humans first
.
Team
Yusuf Erkul
MD, MBA
Chief Executive Officer & Cofounder
Physician entrepreneur who developed an FDA-approved cancer drug at Merck & Co
Burak Yilmaz
MS
President & Cofounder
Serial entrepreneur and synthetic biologist who founded his first biotech company at age 22
Manfred Kraus
PhD
VP, Head of R&D Therapeutics
Firat Ileri
Board Member
Pablo Lubroth
MPhil
Board Observer
Gladys Nunez
Board Observer
Matthew Strout
MD, PhD
VP of Business Development
Stephen DiPalma
MBA
Chief Financial Officer
Balkrishen Bhat
PhD
Head of LNP Formulation
Cafer Ozdemir
PhD
Director of Convergence Science & Cofounder
Ryan Landis
PhD
Principal Scientist / LNP Formulation
Yulia Rybakova
PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Kelly Brock
Senior Computational Biologist
Jieni Xu
PhD, PMP
Senior Scientist, LNP Formulation
Rudy Christmas
Scientist II , Immuno Oncology
Pedro Rivera Pomales
Process Development Scientist
Isaak Mueller
PhD
Scientist, Synthetic Biology
Maxwell Alexander
MS
Data Scientist, Computational Biology
Sadik Yildiz
PhD
Data Scientist, Computational Biology
Tom Addison
Senior Associate Scientist, Synthetic Biology
Leona Lee
MS
Research Associate II, Synthetic Biology
Mark Krimmer
Research Associate, LNP Formulation
Advisory
Board
Arthur Krieg
MD
Clinical Advisor, Nucleic Acid Therapeutics
Founder / CEO / CSO of 4 successful nucleic acid companies
Edward Benz Jr
MD
Clinical Advisor, Medical Oncology
President & CEO Emeritus of Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Peter
Blume-Jensen
MD, PhD
Clinical Advisor, Cancer Drug Development
CEO of Acrivon Therapeutics and former Head of Oncology at of Merck
Nikolai Slavov
PhD
Scientfic Advisor, mRNA Translation
Associate Professor, Northeastern University
Dean
Felsher
MD, PhD
Clinical Advisor, Translational Oncology
Director of Stanford Medicine Translational Research & Applied Medicine at Stanford Medical School
Dan Peer
PhD
Scientific Advisor
Vice President for R&D, Tel Aviv University
This
could
be you.
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