Board of Directors

Evren Alici, MD, PhD: Founder; Chairman & CEO

  • Head of Gene & Cell Therapy Group, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine
    at the Karolinska Institutet (KI) & Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
  • Serves on Advisory Boards for Pfizer, Sanofi and Johnson & Johnson
  • Founding Managing Director, NextGenNK at KI
Dave Adams

David Adams: Independent Director

  • Co-Founder of MintPharma Capital Investment Fund & Managing Partner of Mint12,
    a Specialized Alternative Investment Management Company

Douglas W. Calder: President & Executive Director

  • 25+ Years of Senior Executive Biotech Experience for Public & Private Companies
  • Member of Board of Directors for: NextGenNK, Swedish Innovation Agency’s NK Cell Competence Center
    at KI; Zevra Therapeutics (Nasdaq: ZVRA), and BioFlorida
Robert Finizio

Robert Finizio: Independent Director

  • Managing Director/Co-Founder of MintPharma Capital Investment Fund; Co-Founder, CEO, Vice Chairman of TherapeuticsMD
    (Nasdaq: TXMD); Co-Founder of CareFusion (sold to Cardinal Health in 2006); Chairman of BioFlorida

HG Ljunggren, MD, PhD: Founder; Executive Director

  • Professor, Former Dean of Research, & Founder of Center for Infectious Medicine at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Sweden
  • Founding Managing Director, NextGenNK at KI
  • Member of Nobel Assembly at KI
Jackson Streeter

Jackson Streeter, MD: Independent Director

  • Partner at DeepWork Capital; Director of Ventures at University of Florida; Recognized for
    Founding & Leading Multiple Life Science Ventures to Exits
Tommy Thompson

Governor Tommy Thompson: Independent Director

  • Former Secretary of US Health & Human Services (HHS); Former 4-term Governor of Wisconsin;
    Director at United Therapeutics (Nasdaq: UTHR) & at HealthPeak Properties (NYSE: DOC)