United Neuroscience
United Neuroscience (UNS) is an Irish biotechnology company based in Dublin, Ireland.[1] It is a subsidiary of Vaxxinity.[2]
History
United Neuroscience was spun out of United Biomedical (UBI) in 2014 to develop its Alzheimer's Disease vaccine candidate, UB-311.[3][4] It was officially incorporated in Dublin on October 16, 2014.[5]
On April 1, 2021, United Neuroscience and COVAXX announced that they would consolidate into a new company called Vaxxinity.[2:1]
Organization
Name | Position | Notes |
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Mei Mei Hu | Chief Executive Officer[6] | COVAXX, United Biomedical (UBI), Forum of Young Global Leaders, McKinsey & Company, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Jack Green Group, Give to Cure |
Lou Reese | Co-founder and board member[7] | COVAXX, United Biomedical (UBI), Give to Cure, Jack Green Group |
Chang Yi Wang | Chief Scientific Officer;[1:1] Executive Founder and Chairperson, Scientific Committee[8] | United Biomedical (UBI), United Biomedical-Asia (UBI-Asia), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
Paul Frohna | Chief Medical Officer[9] | Frohna Biotech Consulting, ProFibrix, FibroGen, Genentech |
Farshad Guirakhoo | Chief Scientific Officer[8:1] | National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Acambis, Sanofi Pasteur, Hookipa Biotech, Vaxess Technologies, GeoVax, Responsive BioServices, COVAXX, Vaxxinity, ExpreS2ion Biotechnologies |
Ajay Verma | Chief Medical Officer[10] | Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), Merck, Novartis, Biogen |
Sam Bakri | Vice President of Business Development[9:1] | Give to Cure, Eastern Healthcare Partners, Kind Consumer, Roche, Novartis, Fulbright Program |
PJ Chen | Vice President of Clinical Development[10:1] | Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD), WuXiPRA, AstraZeneca, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging |
Mariah DeLeón | Vice President of People[8:2] | Glassdoor, Culture Summit, Public Library of Science (PLoS), Figma, CrowdStrike[11] |
Jean-Cosme Dodart | Vice President of Preclinical[8:3] | Eli Lilly, Merck Research Laboratories (MRL), NeuroBehavior Laboratory (NBL), Sage Therapeutics, Novartis, Wave Life Sciences, Vaxxinity, Codiak BioSciences[12] |
Martin Doran | Vice President of Finance[8:4] | Mylan, Pfizer, Oracle, Chartered Accountants Ireland[13] |
Chung-Ho Hung | Vice President of Product Development[9:2] | Apollo Biomedicals, Verigen |
Feng Lin | New Vaccine Development Lead[9:3] | United Biomedical (UBI), Beijing People's Hospital, Beijing Medical School, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Medical University |
Herb Roberts | Vice President of Finance[9:4] | Helicon, Juniper Content Corporation, DrFirst, Arthur Young & Company |
Caroline Saxton | Vice President of Program Management[8:5] | American Cyanamid, Tetra Pak, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Vaxxinity, Community Center of Northern Westchester (CCNW)[8:6] |
Brandon Schurter | Vice President of Legal[8:7] | University of California, Irvine (UCI), Pasteur Institute, Morgan & Finnegan, Locke Lord, United Biomedical (UBI), Regeneron Pharmaceuticals[8:8] |
Leigh Shaw | Vice President of Regulatory[8:9] | Cantab Pharmaceuticals, Huntingdon Life Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Gregory Fryer Associates, NightstaRx, Syncona Partners, Nightstar Therapeutics, GenSight Biologics, Bloomsbury Genetic Therapies, SpliceBio[14] |
Joop Sistermans | Director[8:10] | Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy (AWT), Maastricht School of Management, Origin B.V., Akzo Nobel[15] |
Thomas Zeltner | Chairman of the Advisory Board[9:5] | Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA), Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative, Global Patient Safety Forum, Journal of Patient Safety, World Health Organization (WHO), Global Agenda Council on Digital Health, Swiss Transfusion SRC, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Science et Cité, University of Bern, Give to Cure |
Jeremy Friese | Advisor[9:6] | Mayo Clinic, Center for Individualized Medicine, Evidentia Health, Silicon Valley Biosystems |
Daniel Hunt | Advisor[9:7] | Genentech, Abgenix, Roche, Chiron Corporation, Comentis, Morrison & Foerster |
Kostas Lyketsos | Advisor[9:8] | Johns Hopkins Neuropsychiatry Service, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Mackey-White Traumatic Brain Injury Committee |
Campbell Murray | Advisor[9:9] | Novartis Venture Fund, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Auckland City Hospital, Kauffman Fellows, Aerpio Pharmaceuticals, Bionano Genomics, Euthymics Bioscience, Galera Therapeutics, ImaginAb, Neurovance |
Deitrich Stephan | Advisor[9:10] | University of Pittsburgh Department of Human Genetics, Institute for Precision Medicine (IPM), Silicon Valley Biosystems, Gene Partnership, Navigenics, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Aueon, Amnestix, DiaVacs |
Hans Von Celsing | Advisor[9:11] | NeuroVentures, Gelexis Healthcare, Elekta Holdings U.S., Elekta, Clinical Laserthermia Systems |
Steve Arnold | Scientific Advisory Board member[16] | Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School |
Robert Brown | Scientific Advisory Board member[16:1] | Horae Gene Therapy Center |
Jeffrey Cummings | Scientific Advisory Board member[16:2] | Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health |
Nick Fox | Scientific Advisory Board member[16:3] | University College London (UCL) |
Brad Hyman | Scientific Advisory Board member[16:4] | Harvard Medical School |
Wayne Koff | Scientific Advisory Board member[16:5] | COVAXX, Human Vaccines Project |
Paul Maruff | Scientific Advisory Board member[16:6] | Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health |
Eric Reiman | Scientific Advisory Board member[16:7] | Banner Alzheimer's Institute (BAI) |
External links
- Alumni Spotlight. (2020, June 2). Green Vale Magazine, 19. Issuu. https://issuu.com/thegreenvaleschool/docs/14489_gvs_magazine_5.6.20 ↩︎ ↩︎
- Murphy, D., & Schull, D. (2021, April 1). COVAXX and United Neuroscience are now Vaxxinity. Vaxxinity. https://web.archive.org/web/20240911174641/https://ir.vaxxinity.com/news-releases/news-release-details/covaxx-and-united-neuroscience-are-now-vaxxinity ↩︎ ↩︎
- Louis Garfield Reese, IV. Global Health Care Initiative. Retrieved October 25, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.10.25-004145/https://vaticanconference2018.com/louis-garfield-reese-iv/ ↩︎
- About Us. United Neuroscience. Retrieved May 11, 2016, from https://web.archive.org/web/20160511073346/http://unitedneuroscience.com/about-uns/ ↩︎
- United Neuroscience Limited. OpenCorporates. Retrieved October 30, 2024, from https://opencorporates.com/companies/ie/551174 ↩︎
- About. COVAXX. Retrieved April 7, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20200407045615/https://www.covaxx.com/about ↩︎
- Lou Reese. Big Think. Retrieved February 23, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240223042358/https://bigthink.com/people/c_o_united_neuroscience/ ↩︎
- About. United Neuroscience. Retrieved June 22, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20200622130232/https://www.unitedneuroscience.com/about/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
- Leadership. United Neuroscience. Retrieved May 11, 2016, from https://web.archive.org/web/20160511074355/http://unitedneuroscience.com/leadership/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
- Leadership. United Neuroscience. Retrieved October 23, 2017, from https://web.archive.org/web/20171023133216/http://unitedneuroscience.com/leadership ↩︎ ↩︎
- Testimonials. Mariah DeLeón. Retrieved October 29, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.10.29-222859/https://www.mariahdeleon.com/testimonials.html ↩︎
- Experience | Jean-Cosme Dodart. LinkedIn. Retrieved October 29, 2024, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-cosme-dodart-5366a45/details/experience/ ↩︎
- Form S-1 - Vaxxinity, Inc. (2021, October 8). Securities and Exchange Commission. http://archive.today/2024.10.29-224602/https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1851657/000119312521295612/d142511ds1.htm ↩︎
- Experience | Leigh Shaw. LinkedIn. Retrieved October 29, 2024, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/leigh-shaw-1193658/details/experience/ ↩︎
- Joop Sistermans. OMICS International. Retrieved October 29, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.10.29-232130/https://biography.omicsonline.org/united-states-of-america/united-biomedical/joop-sistermans-1242810 ↩︎
- About. United Neuroscience. Retrieved March 15, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20200315010108/https://www.unitedneuroscience.com/about/ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎