Avak Kahvejian

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.

Helicos BioSciences Corp. is a life sciences company focused on innovative genetic analysis technologies and the monetization of those technologies and related intellectual property. The company was founded by Stanley N. Lapidus, Stephen D. Quake and Noubar B. Afeyan on May 9, 2003 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.

Codiak BioSciences, Inc. engages in the development and manufacturing of exosomes. It engages in harnessing exosomes, therapeutic applications, diagnostic applications, and proprietary production. The firm develops engEx Platform, a proprietary and versatile exosome engineering and manufacturing platform, to expand upon the innate properties of exosomes to design novel exosome therapeutics. Codiak BioSciences was founded by Douglas E. William, Raghu Kalluri, and Eric S. Lander in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Rubius Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of red-cell therapeutic medicines. It provides medicine for cancer, autoimmune diseases, hemophilia, infectious and metabolic diseases. The company was founded on April 26, 2013 and is headquartered in Foxboro, MA.

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.

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.

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.

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.