Leen Kawas, Ph.D., has served as our chief executive officer and as a member of our board of directors since January 2014. Previously, Dr. Kawas served as our vice president. Dr. Kawas serves on multiple boards, including the Washington Governor’s Life Science Advisory Board, Scientific Review Board for the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, and Alzheimer’s […]

In this installment of Teach Me in 10, we’re joined by Matt Cooper, co-founder and chief scientific officer at Wugen, Inc. He is also assistant professor of medicine at Washington University. Matt discusses what T cells are and how they can be engineered to recognize cancer cells. This can be achieved by incorporating a specific […]

AKANKSHA SCHWARZ DOESN’T know which shot she got. She’s part of a clinical trial testing Novavax’s experimental Covid-19 vaccine, a blinded study that injected participants with either the real thing or a placebo. But recently, Schwarz became eligible for one of the three vaccines already cleared by the Food and Drug Administration for public use […]