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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

Personnel5) 6)
Name Position Notes
Grigory Khimulya Chief Executive Officer Telis Bioscience, George Church, Wyss Institute, Centre for Effective Altruism, Z Imaging, Harvard College Effective Altruism7)
Cate Hall Chief Operating Officer Centre for Effective Legal Action, Legal Priorities Project, color+light, Symmetry Labs, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, Southern District of New York (SDNY), Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Goldman Sachs, Osborn Maledon, Arizona Daily Wildcat
Kyle Fish Chief Technology Officer Telis Bioscience, Centre for Effetive Altruism, Tufts University, Medical Teams International
Maximilian Schons Chief Medical Officer Uniklinik Köln, MeCell, AMBOSS, Universität zu Köln, RIFCON, EPEA
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, PATH, United States Army Reserve, Novartis, Chiron Corporation, Merck, Perelman School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, University of Cambridge8)
Kevin Esvelt Advisor SecureDNA Foundation, MIT Media Lab, Sculpting Evolution Group, Wyss Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Harvard University9)
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
Kenza Samlali Clinical Manufacturing Manager International Genetically Engineered Medicine Foundation (iGEM), Bricobio, Concordia University, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Anheuser-Busch InBev, Université de Montréal, 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
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, 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), UMC 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, Hospital San Juan de Dios, 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
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 - -
1)
Home. Alvea. Retrieved March 27, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230327012901/https://www.alvea.bio/
2) , 6)
Home. Alvea. Retrieved March 11, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220311233544/https://www.alvea.bio/
3)
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
4)
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
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Grigory Khimulya. LinkedIn. Retrieved March 26, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/grigorykhimulya/
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Experience - John Donnelly. LinkedIn. Retrieved March 26, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndonnelly49621442/details/experience/
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Kevin Esvelt. LinkedIn. Retrieved March 26, 2023, from https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-esvelt-a8388a31/
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