About Us

We have assembled a team of leading cell therapy scientists and drug developers. 

Team Members

Sarah Hein, PhD

CEO, Co-Founder

Maksim Mamonkin, PhD

CSO, Co-Founder

Malcolm Brenner, MD, Phd

Co-founder and Chair Scientific Advisory Board

Leah Dimascio, PhD

Chief Operating Officer

Alice Bexon

Alice Bexon, MD

Acting Chief Medical Officer

Nebojsa Milovic, PhD

Chief Technical Officer

Victoria Lake

Tory Lake, RAC

Head of Regulatory

Steve Haesshaefer, MBA

Head of Clinical Operations

Federica Giordano, PhD

Associate Director of Operations

Eric Smith, PhD

Senior Director Research and Development

Georgia Keresty, PhD, MPH

Strategic Operations

Aaron Vernon, MS

Strategic Advisor Technical Operations

Board Members

Sarah Hein, PhD

CEO, Co-Founder

Maksim Mamonkin, PhD

CSO, Co-Founder

Thomas Luby, PhD

TMC Ventures

Joseph Petrosino, PhD

Baylor College of Medicine

Peter Olagunju, MBA

Independent Director

Steven Lehmann, MBA

Portal Innovations
(observer)

Omar Haneef, MBA

Small Ventures
(observer)

Scientific Advisory Board

Malcolm Brenner, MD, PhD

Cofounder, Founding Director the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine

Maksim Mamonkin, PhD

Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine

Helen Heslop, MD

Director for the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine

Swaminathan Iyer, MD

Professor of Medicine, Department of Lymphoma / Myeloma, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Steven Horwitz, MD

Endowed Chair, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Patrick Hanley, PhD

Chief and Director, Cellular Therapy Program, Children's National Hospital - page

Aaron Vernon, MBA, MS

Chief Manufacturing Officer, Quell Therapeutics

Advisory Members

Malcolm Brenner, MD, Phd​

Co-founder and Chair Scientific Advisory Board

Helen Heslop, MD

Director Cell and Gene Therapy Center, Baylor College of Medicine

LaQuisa Hill, MD

Assistant Professor Hematology, Baylor College of Medicine

Steve Horwitz, MD

Oncologist, T-cell Lymphoma, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Swaminathan P. Iyer, MD

Professor Department of Lymphoma / Myeloma, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Investors & Partners

Investors

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Small Ventures logo
Portal Innovations logo

Partners

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