Alvea
Alvea is an American biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It is focused on “dramatically reducing the time from molecule to trials for new medicines” in order to “stop future pandemics in their tracks and unlock the impact of biotechnology advances on human health.”[1]
The company is developing COVID-19 vaccines, and is funded by Alameda Research, Open Philanthropy, Metaplanet and Good Forever.[2][3]
Alvea is an organization founded around the ideology and community of effective altruism.
History
In a February 16, 2022 post to the Effective Altruism Forum, company co-founder Kyle Fish announced that Alvea had recently launched in order to develop a COVID-19 vaccine specific to the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.[4]
Organization
Alvea's personnel is listed on its website.[2:1][5]
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Grigory Khimulya | Chief Executive Officer | Telis Bioscience, George Church, Wyss Institute, Centre for Effective Altruism, Z Imaging, Harvard College Effective Altruism[6] |
| Cate Hall | Chief Operating Officer | Centre for Effective Legal Action, Legal Priorities Project, color+light, Symmetry Labs, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Goldman Sachs, Osborn Maledon, Arizona Daily Wildcat |
| Kyle Fish | Chief Technology Officer | Telis Bioscience, Centre for Effective Altruism, Tufts University, Medical Teams International |
| Maximilian Schons | Chief Medical Officer | Cologne University Hospital, MeCell, AMBOSS, University of Cologne, RIFCON |
| Ethan Alley | Board Member | George Church, altLabs |
| Blake Borgenson | Board Member | Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), Recursion Pharmaceuticals, University of Texas at Austin, BuildASign.com, Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN), Seventh Coast Technologies, MEM Research Center for Biomechanics |
| John Donnelly | Advisor | Vaccinology Consulting, Global Healing, Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), United States Army Reserve, Novartis, Chiron Corporation, Merck, Perelman School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, University of Cambridge[7] |
| Kevin Esvelt | Advisor | SecureDNA Foundation, MIT Media Lab, Sculpting Evolution Group, Wyss Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Harvard University[8] |
| Florian Aldehoff-Zeidler | Team Member | ESTATIKA, Klimakönner, Peace Brigades International (PBI), German Effective Altruism Network, Amnesty International |
| Emily Baron | Team Member | Gary Community Ventures, COVIDCheck Colorado, Peterson Center on Healthcare, Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, Commonwealth Fund, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, American Cancer Society, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia |
| Allison Blackerby | Team Member | Metaclipse Therapeutics, Copan Diagnostics, CSI Laboratories |
| Robert Bölkow | Head of Internal Operations | Kry, AMBOSS, Helpling, DB Schenker |
| Alex Kleinman | Science Team | BIOMILQ, Keck Graduate Institute, Dalhousie University, Dartmouth Institute for Arctic Studies |
| Alex Norman | Scientist | University of Oxford, Wyss Institute, University of Cambridge, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University College London (UCL) |
| Tobias Odendahl | Team Member | AMBOSS |
| Mats Olsen | Partnerships | Prevail Partners, Prevail InfoWorks, Numoda, Giving What We Can |
| Chris Painter | Founding Head of Operations | Mercatus Center, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), OpenAI, 4Catalyzer, Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics (CN&T), Centre for Effective Altruism, Penn Effective Altruism, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Boy Scouts of America |
| Eric Parrie | Leadership | COVIDCheck Colorado, Gary Community Ventures, Mike Johnston, Collegiate Academies, teachNOLA, Obama for America, University of Nantes, Institute of Reading Development, Ministry of National Education and Youth |
| Kenza Samlali | Clinical Manufacturing Manager | International Genetically Engineered Medicine Foundation (iGEM), Bricobio, Concordia University, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Anheuser-Busch InBev, University of Montreal, SynBio Canada, Global Community Bio Summit, Montreal Regional Science Fair, Canadian Science Policy Centre (CSPC), Board of European Students in Technology (BEST) |
| Neha Shah | Operations | Indigo Ag, University of California, San Diego |
| James Smith | Head of Global Strategy | Resilient Bio, University of Oxford, Centre for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Information (CASMI), SENS Research Foundation, Harvard University, AB Vista, Seminar for Advanced English Studies (SAES), Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society, Centre for Long-Term Resilience, RAND Europe |
| Joe Torres | Team member | - |
| Myron Krueger | Operations Manager | Omnipresent, Entrepreneur First, Hult Prize Foundation, Agorize, Shaper Impact Capital, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Purpose in Motion (PIM) |
| Emily Volpini | Clinical Operations | McKinsey & Company, Explore Schools, Success Academy Charter Schools, Kraft Foods Group |
| Connor Flexman | Clinical Team | EpidemicForecasting.org, AI Impacts, Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), Brown University Particle Astrophysics Group, Institute for Modeling Plasma, Atmosphere and Cosmic Dust (IMPACT) |
| Brian Wang | Research Scientist | MIT Media Lab, University of California, Berkeley, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Cornell University, Xerox, Bay Area Scientists in Schools (BASIS), East Bay Biosecurity Group, National Science Foundation (NSF), American Chemical Society |
| Richard Williamson | Team Member | Works in Progress, Waitrose & Partners, Sainsbury's, Clearhaven Capital, St. Martin's Affordable Finance Development, L.E.K. Consulting, Alexandra School |
| Gianni Bennardo | Trial Operations and Strategy | Boston Consulting Group (BCG), CREO Solutions, Klass Capital, SaaSCan, BMO Financial Group, Roots |
| Kaila Bennett | - | RootPath, Telis Bioscience, Massachusetts General Hospital, Vivtex, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), University Medical Center Utrecht, University of California, Riverside (UCR), Osaka University, Loma Linda University |
| Angela Cai | Clinical Supply Partner | Telis Bioscience, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Enlight Consulting, University of California, San Francisco, University of California, Berkeley, University of Colorado Boulder, Frasier Meadows |
| Ryan Duncombe | Strategy Team, Science Team | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Council on Strategic Risks, University of Chicago, University of California, Santa Barbara, Giving What We Can |
| Anemone Franz | Medical Consultant, Clinical Trial Physician | Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, DIAKOVERE Friederikenstift, Medical Mission Institute, San Juan de Dios Hospital, DialogDirect |
| Jonathan Knight | Strategy & Operations | Sensorium Therapeutics, Indigo Ag, TruGreen, Southern Hunt Club |
| Subbu Krishnaji | Senior Scientist, Preclinical Development | Telis Bioscience, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Tufts University, Indian Institute of Technology |
| Alexander Large | Process Improvement Specialist | Student Beans, Teaching You How to Learn, Click Dealer, Cellular Agriculture UK, SynbiCITE, Effective Ventures Foundation, New Harvest |
| Althea McLaughlin | - | - |
| Dylan Miars | Internal Operations | Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health Research Team (JJBH), UC Berkeley Residential Life, University of California, Berkeley, Centre for Effective Altruism, Audrey Denney, Bridges Multicultural Resource Center, Centers for Educational Equity and Excellence (CE3), Kappa Alpha Pi, United States House of Representatives, Gavin Newsom, Barnes & Noble, SEEDS Community Resource Center, Redlands Unified School District, The Gates Scholarship (TGS) |
| Tatenda Ngwaru | - | - |
| Brent Packer | Head of Trial Operations, Head of Special Projects | synthesize.consulting, Oatly Climate/Culture Lab, McKinsey & Company, Wishing Wells, Potlux, Rothschild Financial Consulting, SmartMarkets, Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Omicron Delta Epsilon |
| Johnson Ramsaur | Internal Operations | United South End Settlements, AmeriCorps VISTA, Yale Divinity School, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health (VMFH), American Red Cross, Boston Effective Altruism |
| Sarah Robinson | Strategy Team | Oxford Protein Informatics Group (OPIG), Data Science for All (DS4A), Panacea Innovation, Biolacuna, Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS), Zero Gravity, AspireXAccess, Coronavirus Tutoring Initiative |
| Pascal Scheven | - | - |
| Adam Trotman | - | - |
External links
Home. Alvea. Retrieved March 27, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230327012901/https://www.alvea.bio/ ↩︎
Home. Alvea. Retrieved March 11, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220311233544/https://www.alvea.bio/ ↩︎ ↩︎
Ashworth, L. (2022, December 19). How to spend a million dollars, by Sam Bankman-Fried. Financial Times. http://archive.today/2023.01.11-055404/https://www.ft.com/content/9a3b4b78-b18b-4d1f-b28b-05a73525aa61 ↩︎
Fish, K. (2022, February 16). Announcing Alvea—An EA COVID Vaccine Project. Effective Altruism Forum. https://web.archive.org/web/20220312015526/https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/67awq5ozeYSjsYchk/announcing-alvea-an-ea-covid-vaccine-project ↩︎
Team. Alvea. Retrieved January 18, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230118151354/https://www.alvea.bio/team/ ↩︎
Grigory Khimulya. LinkedIn. Retrieved March 26, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/grigorykhimulya/ ↩︎
Experience - John Donnelly. LinkedIn. Retrieved March 26, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndonnelly49621442/details/experience/ ↩︎
Kevin Esvelt. LinkedIn. Retrieved March 26, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-esvelt-a8388a31/ ↩︎