| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Paul Shabram |
Senior Vice President of Technical Operations | Profile |
Launa Saunders |
Director of IT, Sales and Marketing Platforms | Profile |
Troy Seelye |
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer | Profile |
TAO Life Sciences invests in and develops early stage medical innovations. Working closely with physicians and researchers from universities and companies, TAO Life Sciences takes new concepts and turns them into reality. TAO Life Sciences is building a pipeline of promising medical device and life science innovations that will impact global healthcare markets and make a significant difference in people's lives. TAO Life Sciences applies its expertise to develop prototypes, demonstrate clinical proof of concept, and secure financial exits for our innovations. We bring design engineering, scientific direction, and business and legal strategy to clinicians' and researchers' new design concepts. In doing so, we have built a diversified pipeline of medical device technologies with significant commercial potential. The Company's principals have successfully brought medical device, diagnostic, therapeutic and other products to market over the past twenty years.
PaxVax is a privately held, fully integrated vaccine company, based in Redwood City, California, USA. Established in 2007, in response to the global threat of the H5N1 pandemic, our founders set out to develop and commercialize an innovative vaccine technology in a socially responsible manner for global impact. Our founding principles were to enable geographically distributed manufacturing of affordable, self-administered oral vaccines against infectious diseases such as influenza. Since then, we have expanded our capabilities and technologies to address unmet vaccine needs against endemic diseases in developing countries, for travelers to disease-laden areas and in biodefense. Our clinical stage portfolio today includes vaccine candidates for cholera, avian influenza (H5N1), anthrax, and HIV. We are committed to providing both attractive financial returns and social returns, without a significant trade-off between the two. As a double bottom line business, we will measure our financial success in terms of return on equity and we will assess our social returns by access to our vaccines globally, particularly to the poor and otherwise disenfranchised. We strive to develop and deliver vaccines that are affordable and deliverable anywhere in the world regardless of the state of medical infrastructure or supply chains. We utilize investment capital as well as R&D grants and contracts to fund the development of our vaccines. We exploit the inherent synergies in our proprietary oral vaccine technology platform to research and develop multiple vaccine candidates in a timely and capital efficient manner. We strive to make an impact on infectious disease morbidity and mortality throughout the world and on the global vaccine industry through our successes. To date, we have raised more than $75 million (USD) from investors including Ignition Ventures, Ignition Growth and the Wellcome Trust. We are supported by R&D grants and contracts from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) through both its National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Division of AIDS (DAIDS) as well as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Our most advanced vaccine is a single dose oral cholera vaccine, which entered final or Phase III clinical trials, and whose study should be completed in 2014. Following this candidate is a vaccine ready for Phase II (Pandemic Influenza), two caccines in current Phase I studies (HIV and anthrax), and multiple candidates in preclinical research (HSV, dengue, malaria). PaxVax is headquartered in Redwood City, California and is incorporated in Delaware. Our laboratory and manufacturing facilities and the majority of our 80 employees are located in San Diego, California.
Founded in 2017 by Flagship Pioneering, Cygnal Therapeutics is the first company to build a platform to develop drugs in the field of exoneural biology. Exoneural biology is broadly implicated in human health and disease. Fueled by our dynamic Exoneural Medicine Platform™, we are creating new medicines across multiple therapeutic areas, starting with cancer and inflammatory diseases.
GPB Scientific is transforming the process of purifying and enriching cells for cell therapy production. Reliable cell recovery and expansion are fundamental to the successful scale up of CAR-T or any therapeutic cell manufacturing process. GPB has developed a high-throughput, automatable, microfluidic closed-system for leukapheresis sample preparation and downstream processing of cells for CAR-T and other cell therapy production. This breakthrough reduces cell losses and skill-intensive manual steps.
ArunA Bio is harnessing the natural abilities of neural exosomes to cross the blood brain barrier and enhance the body`s anti-inflammatory, self-repair and protective mechanisms to treat a range of neurodegenerative disorders.