Avak Kahvejian

Cygnal Therapeutics, Inc. develops drugs for cancer, immunological diseases and regenerative processes. The company was founded by Noubar Afeyan, Avak Kahvejian and Jordi Mata-Fink in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

International Institute of New England, Inc. operates as a non-profit organization serving immigrants, refugees, asylees, and other vulnerable populations. Its services include refugee resettlement, case management, health services navigation, employment, education and literacy and citizenship programming. The company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Flagship Pioneering (Flagship Pioneering) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Ed M Kania and Noubar B Afeyan. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Cellarity Inc. engages in the operation of platform to design medicines targeting the full cellular and molecular complexity of disease. The company was founded by Avak Kahvejian, James J. Collins, Noubar Afeyan, and Nicholas Plugis in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Ring Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of a gene therapy platform. Its Anellovector platform provides tissue specifities benefitting from the inherent diversity of tropism afforded by the commensal virome. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Generate Biomedicines, Inc. is a drug generation company that has developed a machine learning-powered multimodality generative biology platform capable of generating new drugs on demand across a wide range of biologic modalities. Generate Biomedicines is based in Somerville, MA. The platform seamlessly integrates computational and wet lab capabilities, improving the speed at which targets and therapeutics are identified and validated, the specificity of target engagement by generated proteins, and the cost of identifying and developing clinical candidates. The company's platform represents a potentially fundamental shift in what's possible in the field of therapeutic development, addressing key challenges of drug discovery and drastically expanding the available search space for novel biomedicines. The company was founded in 2018 by Poorya Hosseini, Molly Gibson, Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Avak Kahvejian, Gevorg Grigoryan. Michael T. Nally has been the CEO of the company since 2018.

Profound Therapeutics is a company that is focused on discovering new medicines by expanding the human proteome. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company uses their platform, Profoundry, to identify and validate proteins and understand their therapeutic potential. This results in a growing database of novel proteins and their roles in health and disease. The company was founded in 2020 by Avak Kahvejian, who has been the CEO since then.

Ampersand Biomedicines is an American company that designs programmable medicines that work precisely where needed in the body and nowhere else. The company's computationally powered platform identifies ideal addresses for drug localization and informs the design of and-body™ therapeutics that have the optimal therapeutic effect. The result is smarter biologic medicines that target the site of disease without affecting healthy tissue or cells. Ampersand is enabling potent mechanisms to treat disease by creating and programming therapeutics that are more efficacious, without compromising on safety or tolerability. The company was founded in 2020 at Flagship Labs, a unit of Flagship Pioneering. Jason Gardner has been the CEO of the company since 2023.