Flagship Pioneering Unveils Cellarity, the First Company to Discover Medicines Targeting Cell Behavior
Summary
" Led by Cellaritys founding CEO and Flagship Pioneering Partner Avak Kahvejian, Ph.D., and co-founder and Senior Associate Nick Plugis, Ph.D., a team of entrepreneurial scientists leveraged cutting-edge, fit-for-purpose data and novel machine learning algorithms to reveal that individual cells have diverse, connected, and fluid behaviors that drive health and disease. "To fulfill the Flagship Pioneering vision for Cellarity, weve brought together a stellar interdisciplinary team of experts in therapeutics development, network biology, AI, and technology," says Dr. Kahvejian. "At Cellarity, we have leveraged our novel approach and vantage point to create a powerful, generalizable platform for therapeutics discovery—one that integrates cell and network biology from human and animal samples, and tissue culture systems, and allows for clearer translatability. " The Cellarity Board of Directors includes Co-Founder Noubar Afeyan, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering; Avak Kahvejian, Ph.D.; Cristina Rondinone, Ph.D.; Carl Decicco, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Foghorn Therapeutics, Inc.; Marcello Damiani, Chief Digital and Operational Excellence Officer, Moderna Therapeutics; and James J. Collins, Ph.D., Academic Co-Founder and Termeer Professor of Bioengineering in the Department of Biological Engineering and Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, MIT. Cellarity is using its platform to design medicines targeting the full cellular and molecular complexity of disease, enabling a quantum leap in the success rate and speed of drug discovery.