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The integrated perspectives of these influential innovators reflect the breadth of the organization’s stakeholders – from world class scientists, biotech and pharma leaders to venture capitalists, philanthropists and patient advocates.</p> </div> </div>  <div class="container-fluid limit"> <div class="row">  <div class="col-md-4 personitem d-flex justify-content-center align-items-start"> <button type="button" class="personbutton h-100 v-100 d-flex flex-column align-items-center btn" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#a931"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Netter.png"> <span class="atitle">Barbara Netter</span> <p><strong>Honorary Chair and Co-Founder</strong></p> </button> </div>  <div class="personpop modal fade" id="a931" data-backdrop="static" data-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header d-flex flex-column align-items-center"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <span aria-hidden="true"><i class="fal fa-times"></i> </span> </button> <h1 class="modal-title" id="staticBackdropLabel">Barbara Netter</h1> <div class="homeherobody text-center"> <p><strong>Honorary Chair and Co-Founder</strong></p> </div> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4 col-xl-3 offset-xl-1 d-flex flex-column"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Netter.png"> <div class="socic d-flex mt-3 justify-content-center"> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-8 col-xl-7"> <p>Barbara Netter is honorary chair of the Board of Directors and <strong>co-founder of </strong><strong>Alliance</strong><strong> for Cancer Gene Therapy</strong>. Mrs. Netter was a therapist in New York and Connecticut. She served as staff therapist at Pelham Family Services in Pelham, NY, for 20 years. </p> <p>Mrs. Netter held a private practice for 15 years. She was facilitator at the Den for Grieving Kids of Family Centers for 12 years. In 2003, Mrs. Netter was awarded the Louise Grisafi Community Health Award in recognition of her volunteer contributions to the community. </p> <p>In addition to serving as honorary chair, Mrs. Netter serves on the Board of the Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania and on the Advisory Board of the Women’s Health Initiative at Greenwich Hospital.  </p> <p>Mrs. Netter also serves on the Advisory Board of the School of American Ballet in New York City and is a patron of the arts who supports the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Connecticut Ballet to name a few.  </p> <p>In 2011, Mrs. Netter received the Spirit of Greenwich Award for her contributions to the community. In 2013, Mrs. Netter received an honorary doctorate degree of humane letters from Quinnipiac University. The Connecticut Council of Philanthropy awarded the John H. Flier Award to Mrs. Netter in 2015. Mrs. Netter was the honoree for the 2020 Philly Fights Cancer, highlighting pancreatic cancer at the Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania. </p> <p>Mrs. Netter is a graduate of New York University. She attended the Family Institute of Westchester and received her MS from Iona College in New Rochelle, NY. </p> <p><a href="https://acgtfoundation.org/who-we-are/board-of-directors/unlikely-hero/">Learn more</a> about how Mrs. Netter and her husband, Edward, founded the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 personitem d-flex justify-content-center align-items-start"> <button type="button" class="personbutton h-100 v-100 d-flex flex-column align-items-center btn" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#a2970"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Engelsgjerd.png"> <span class="atitle">Marc Engelsgjerd, MD</span> <p>Vice President, Search & Evaluation, Royalty Pharma</p> </button> </div>  <div class="personpop modal fade" id="a2970" data-backdrop="static" data-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header d-flex flex-column align-items-center"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <span aria-hidden="true"><i class="fal fa-times"></i> </span> </button> <h1 class="modal-title" id="staticBackdropLabel">Marc Engelsgjerd, MD</h1> <div class="homeherobody text-center"> <p>Vice President, Search & Evaluation, Royalty Pharma</p> </div> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4 col-xl-3 offset-xl-1 d-flex flex-column"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Engelsgjerd.png"> <div class="socic d-flex mt-3 justify-content-center"> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-8 col-xl-7"> <p>Marc Engelsgjerd, MD, is Vice President, Search & Evaluation, at Royalty Pharma. Marc was previously the senior biotechnology equity research analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. Prior to Bloomberg, Marc’s experience includes serving as oncology practice lead at inThought Research and time spent in equity research at Banc of America and UBS. Marc earned his medical degree at the UCSF School of Medicine followed by residency training at the Washington University School of Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors in Molecular & Cellular Biology from the University of Arizona.</p> <p></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 personitem d-flex justify-content-center align-items-start"> <button type="button" class="personbutton h-100 v-100 d-flex flex-column align-items-center btn" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#a945"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Englander.png"> <span class="atitle">Daniel Englander</span> <p>Managing Partner, Ursula Capital Partners</p> </button> </div>  <div class="personpop modal fade" id="a945" data-backdrop="static" data-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header d-flex flex-column align-items-center"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <span aria-hidden="true"><i class="fal fa-times"></i> </span> </button> <h1 class="modal-title" id="staticBackdropLabel">Daniel Englander</h1> <div class="homeherobody text-center"> <p>Managing Partner, Ursula Capital Partners</p> </div> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4 col-xl-3 offset-xl-1 d-flex flex-column"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Englander.png"> <div class="socic d-flex mt-3 justify-content-center"> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-8 col-xl-7"> <p>Dan Englander is founder and managing partner of Ursula Capital Partners, an investment management firm founded in 2004. Mr. Englander is director, America’s Car-Mart, Inc. (NASDAQ), an automotive retailer, since 2007; Copart, Inc. (NASDAQ), a provider of online auctions and vehicle remarketing services, since 2006; and CKX Lands, Inc. (NYSE, a land management company.  </p> <p>In addition to these responsibilities, Mr. Englander is director of Crème de la Crème, a private childcare company. Prior to founding Ursula Capital Partners, Mr. Englander was investment banker and managing partner with Allen & Company.  </p> <p>Mr. Englander earned his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 personitem d-flex justify-content-center align-items-start"> <button type="button" class="personbutton h-100 v-100 d-flex flex-column align-items-center btn" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#a2036"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Fardis.png"> <span class="atitle">Maria Fardis, PhD</span> <p>Venture Partner, Frazier Life Sciences, CEO, Lassen Therapeutics</p> </button> </div>  <div class="personpop modal fade" id="a2036" data-backdrop="static" data-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header d-flex flex-column align-items-center"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <span aria-hidden="true"><i class="fal fa-times"></i> </span> </button> <h1 class="modal-title" id="staticBackdropLabel">Maria Fardis, PhD</h1> <div class="homeherobody text-center"> <p>Venture Partner, Frazier Life Sciences, CEO, Lassen Therapeutics</p> </div> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4 col-xl-3 offset-xl-1 d-flex flex-column"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Fardis.png"> <div class="socic d-flex mt-3 justify-content-center"> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-8 col-xl-7"> <p>Maria Fardis, Ph.D., is CEO at Lassen Therapeutics and a Venture Partner at Frazier Life Sciences and is the Chair of Board of Directors at Obsidian Therapeutics. She is a member of the Board of Directors at CRISPR Therapeutics as well as Quanta Therapeutics. She has over 20 years of scientific and management experience in public and private companies. Dr. Fardis previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Iovance Biotherapeutics, a publicly traded Biotechnology company.</p> <p>As CEO at Iovance, she led the transformation from an early stage development company to a company with late-stage cell therapy programs for the treatment of solid tumors. Prior to Iovance, Dr. Fardis served as the Chief Operating Officer of Acerta Pharma B.V., where she worked on the development of Calquence until the company’s acquisition by AstraZeneca. Prior to that, she worked at Pharmacyclics, Inc. She was a key contributor in the creation of a broad clinical program leading to global approvals for Imbruvica in multiple hematologic malignancies.</p> <p>She served as Chief of Oncology Operations and Alliances at Pharmacyclics. Before Pharmacyclics, Dr. Fardis held increasing senior positions in medicinal chemistry and the project and portfolio management at Gilead Sciences, Inc., during which time she was involved with different therapeutic areas including antivirals, oncology, and cardiovascular therapeutics and worked on the development and life cycle management of Letairis.</p> <p> Maria received her PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and her B.S. <em>summa cum laude</em> in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She also holds an MBA, received with the highest honors, from Golden Gate University.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 personitem d-flex justify-content-center align-items-start"> <button type="button" class="personbutton h-100 v-100 d-flex flex-column align-items-center btn" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#a941"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Glickich.png"> <span class="atitle">Peter A. Glicklich</span> <p><strong>Chairman of the Executive Committee </strong><br /> Managing Partner, Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg </p> </button> </div>  <div class="personpop modal fade" id="a941" data-backdrop="static" data-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header d-flex flex-column align-items-center"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <span aria-hidden="true"><i class="fal fa-times"></i> </span> </button> <h1 class="modal-title" id="staticBackdropLabel">Peter A. Glicklich</h1> <div class="homeherobody text-center"> <p><strong>Chairman of the Executive Committee </strong><br /> Managing Partner, Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg </p> </div> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4 col-xl-3 offset-xl-1 d-flex flex-column"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Glickich.png"> <div class="socic d-flex mt-3 justify-content-center"> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-8 col-xl-7"> <p>Peter Glicklich is the managing partner of the New York office of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, a Canadian-based law firm specializing in M&A, crossborder transactions, real estate, infrastructure and related matters. Prior to this, he was a partner at Roberts & Holland, LLP, mainly a private client tax-focused law firm. Mr. Glicklich is a 1981 cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School and a summa cum laude from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Economics), 1977. He serves on the Board of Associates of the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research in Cambridge, MA, and serves as Finance VP of the International Fiscal Association (USA Branch). </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 personitem d-flex justify-content-center align-items-start"> <button type="button" class="personbutton h-100 v-100 d-flex flex-column align-items-center btn" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#a946"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Gregory.png"> <span class="atitle">Michael Gregory</span> <p>Co-Managing Partner, Avidity Partners</p> </button> </div>  <div class="personpop modal fade" id="a946" data-backdrop="static" data-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header d-flex flex-column align-items-center"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <span aria-hidden="true"><i class="fal fa-times"></i> </span> </button> <h1 class="modal-title" id="staticBackdropLabel">Michael Gregory</h1> <div class="homeherobody text-center"> <p>Co-Managing Partner, Avidity Partners</p> </div> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4 col-xl-3 offset-xl-1 d-flex flex-column"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Gregory.png"> <div class="socic d-flex mt-3 justify-content-center"> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-8 col-xl-7"> <p>Michael Gregory is co-managing partner of Avidity Partners, a biotechnology/healthcare-focused investment manager with a seasoned research team of six investment professionals with substantial scientific and investment expertise, and investments in public and private companies.  </p> <p>From 2010-2018, Mr. Gregory was portfolio manager and head of Healthcare at Highland and managed an investment team of eight to 10 people and an average gross market value of $1 billion to $2 billion. He also served as CIO of the $4 billion alternative Investment platform and served as a member of the Equity Investment Committee, Private Equity Investment Committee, Credit Investment Committee and Executive Committee. In 2006, Mr. Gregory founded Cummings Bay, a biotechnology/healthcare-focused investment manager that became an affiliate of Highland in 2010. </p> <p>Mr. Gregory holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management, having completed a highly specialized joint program in healthcare within the Yale Schools of Medicine, Management and Public Policy. He holds a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, lecturer at Yale University and serves on a number of academic and scientific boards including University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, The University of Texas Center for Brain Health, The Center for Vision Health, Dallas Services, University of Texas Southwestern Cary Council (Steering Committee) and had prior Board appointments at University of Pennsylvania Center for Brain Injury and Repair, Southern Methodist University and Tower Center. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 personitem d-flex justify-content-center align-items-start"> <button type="button" class="personbutton h-100 v-100 d-flex flex-column align-items-center btn" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#a747"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Leadership_Honeycutt.png"> <span class="atitle">Kevin Honeycutt</span> <p>CEO and President</p> </button> </div>  <div class="personpop modal fade" id="a747" data-backdrop="static" data-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header d-flex flex-column align-items-center"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <span aria-hidden="true"><i class="fal fa-times"></i> </span> </button> <h1 class="modal-title" id="staticBackdropLabel">Kevin Honeycutt</h1> <div class="homeherobody text-center"> <p>CEO and President</p> </div> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4 col-xl-3 offset-xl-1 d-flex flex-column"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Leadership_Honeycutt.png"> <div class="socic d-flex mt-3 justify-content-center"> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinshoneycutt/"><img style="height:20px;width:auto;margin-right:6px;" src="/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Linkedin_Icon.png" /></a> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:khoneycutt@acgtfoundation.org"><img style="height:20px;width:auto;margin-left:6px;" src="/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Email_Icon-1.png" /></a> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-8 col-xl-7"> <p>Kevin Honeycutt was named CEO and president of Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy in December 2018 and elected to its board of directors in June 2022. As chief executive officer, Mr. Honeycutt’s role is to help realize and enhance the vision of ACGT’s co-founders, Barbara Netter and her late husband Edward, by focusing the organization on solving the next generation of challenges brought by metastatic cancers while continuing to build organizational alliances and joint ventures.</p> <p>Prior to joining ACGT, Mr. Honeycutt served as president of the Avon Breast Cancer Crusade and executive director of the Avon Foundation for Women. Through his consulting firm, Honeycutt Partners, he served in a variety of roles helping lead major projects for the American Diabetes Association, the New Venture Fund, the Entertainment Industry Foundation, the United Cancer Front, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and other leading nonprofit organizations.</p> <p>Mr. Honeycutt currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Cancer Institute and Friends of Mozart and is a member of the National Council of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. He is a past Board member of the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation at the University of California, Los Angeles.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 personitem d-flex justify-content-center align-items-start"> <button type="button" class="personbutton h-100 v-100 d-flex flex-column align-items-center btn" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#a948"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Chau.png"> <span class="atitle">Chau Khuong</span> <p>Biotech Entrepreneur and Investor, <span class="TextRun SCXW50857948 BCX8" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW50857948 BCX8">CJNV Bioventures, Inc.</span></span></p> </button> </div>  <div class="personpop modal fade" id="a948" data-backdrop="static" data-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header d-flex flex-column align-items-center"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <span aria-hidden="true"><i class="fal fa-times"></i> </span> </button> <h1 class="modal-title" id="staticBackdropLabel">Chau Khuong</h1> <div class="homeherobody text-center"> <p>Biotech Entrepreneur and Investor, <span class="TextRun SCXW50857948 BCX8" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW50857948 BCX8">CJNV Bioventures, Inc.</span></span></p> </div> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4 col-xl-3 offset-xl-1 d-flex flex-column"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Chau.png"> <div class="socic d-flex mt-3 justify-content-center"> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-8 col-xl-7"> <p>Chau Q. Khuong has been a member of our Board of Directors since 2016. Mr. Khuong is a seasoned healthcare investor and entrepreneur with over twenty five years experience investing in private and public biotechnology and medical device companies. He currently manages investments from CJNV BioVentures, a life science focused entity he founded in 2021 to provide capital solutions and strategic advisory to life science entrepreneurs, particularly in the formative phase of their company creation journey.<br><br>From 2003 to 2021 he worked at OrbiMed Advisors, a global healthcare-dedicated investment firm with $15 billion AUM, where he was Partner and member of the investment committees directing capital deployment from OrbiMed’s flagship venture capital funds. He has been an active lead investor in healthcare innovation across all company stages and therapeutic areas including oncology, infectious disease, ophthalmology, liver disease, and genetic medicines. Mr. Khuong currently serves or has served as a Board Director at numerous public and private companies including Arius Research (acquired by Roche), Bellus Health (acquired by GSK), Fusion Pharma (acquired by AstraZeneca), Glaukos Medical (NYSE: GKOS), Intellia (NASDAQ: NTLA), Inspire Medsystems (NYSE: INSP), Intercept Pharma (acquired by Alphasigma), OnCusp Therapeutics, Rempex (acquired by Medicines Company), Restora Medical, and ReViral (acquired by Pfizer).<br><br>Prior to OrbiMed, Mr. Khuong was an early employee at Veritas Medicine, a startup company that innovated clinical trials patient recruitment with an AI driven matching algorithm. He also conducted basic science research in transplantation immunology at Massachusetts General Hospital and at Yale School of Medicine. He received a B.S. (Molecular Biology) and an MPH (Infectious Disease Epidemiology) both from Yale University.</p> <p></p> <p></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 personitem d-flex justify-content-center align-items-start"> <button type="button" class="personbutton h-100 v-100 d-flex flex-column align-items-center btn" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#a934"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Lahey.png"> <span class="atitle">John L. Lahey, PhD</span> <p>President Emeritus, Quinnipiac University </p> </button> </div>  <div class="personpop modal fade" id="a934" data-backdrop="static" data-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header d-flex flex-column align-items-center"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <span aria-hidden="true"><i class="fal fa-times"></i> </span> </button> <h1 class="modal-title" id="staticBackdropLabel">John L. Lahey, PhD</h1> <div class="homeherobody text-center"> <p>President Emeritus, Quinnipiac University </p> </div> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4 col-xl-3 offset-xl-1 d-flex flex-column"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Lahey.png"> <div class="socic d-flex mt-3 justify-content-center"> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-8 col-xl-7"> <p>John L. Lahey, PhD, is president emeritus of Quinnipiac University, a private university located in Hamden, CT. Upon his arrival at Quinnipiac in March 1987, Dr. Lahey initiated a strategic planning process, leading to the University’s growth from 1,902 students in 1987 to more than 8,500 students in 2021. </p> <p>Dr. Lahey also serves as a director of Avangrid Inc. (NYSE), Independence Holding Company (NYSE) and The Yale New Haven Health System. He is also currently professor of logic and philosophy at Quinnipiac University. </p> <p>Dr. Lahey holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in philosophy from the University of Dayton; a PhD in philosophy from the University of Miami and a second master’s degree in higher education administration from Columbia University. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 personitem d-flex justify-content-center align-items-start"> <button type="button" class="personbutton h-100 v-100 d-flex flex-column align-items-center btn" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#a935"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Landes.png"> <span class="atitle">Alexandra Landes</span> <p>Co-Founder and Executive Director, Wendy Walk</p> </button> </div>  <div class="personpop modal fade" id="a935" data-backdrop="static" data-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header d-flex flex-column align-items-center"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <span aria-hidden="true"><i class="fal fa-times"></i> </span> </button> <h1 class="modal-title" id="staticBackdropLabel">Alexandra Landes</h1> <div class="homeherobody text-center"> <p>Co-Founder and Executive Director, Wendy Walk</p> </div> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4 col-xl-3 offset-xl-1 d-flex flex-column"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BOD_Landes.png"> <div class="socic d-flex mt-3 justify-content-center"> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-8 col-xl-7"> <p>Alexandra N. Landes is co-founder and executive director of <a href="https://acgtfoundation.org/take-action/events/">Wendy Walk</a>. This national non-profit organization raises funds and awareness for rare sarcoma by hosting walks and other events around the country. Ms. Landes has secured $3.8 million for international research from individuals, corporations and family foundations. </p> <p>Previously, Ms. Landes was Manhattan community relations associate for the Office of the New York City Public Advocate. She graduated from Tufts University and from the Boston University Oxford Honors Program. Currently, she is earning a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4 personitem d-flex justify-content-center align-items-start"> <button type="button" class="personbutton h-100 v-100 d-flex flex-column align-items-center btn" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#a2546"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/BOD_Levine.png"> <span class="atitle">Bruce L. Levine, PhD</span> <p>Barbara and Edward Netter Professor in Cancer Gene Therapy, University of Pennsylvania</p> </button> </div>  <div class="personpop modal fade" id="a2546" data-backdrop="static" data-keyboard="false" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="staticBackdropLabel" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header d-flex flex-column align-items-center"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <span aria-hidden="true"><i class="fal fa-times"></i> </span> </button> <h1 class="modal-title" id="staticBackdropLabel">Bruce L. Levine, PhD</h1> <div class="homeherobody text-center"> <p>Barbara and Edward Netter Professor in Cancer Gene Therapy, University of Pennsylvania</p> </div> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4 col-xl-3 offset-xl-1 d-flex flex-column"> <img class="personimg" src="https://acgtfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/BOD_Levine.png"> <div class="socic d-flex mt-3 justify-content-center"> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-8 col-xl-7"> <p>Dr. Bruce Levine, the Barbara and Edward Netter Professor in Cancer Gene Therapy, is the Founding Director of the Clinical Cell and Vaccine Production Facility (CVPF) in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. (Biology) from Penn and a Ph.D. in Immunology and Infectious Diseases from Johns Hopkins. First-in-human adoptive immunotherapy trials include the first use of a lentiviral vector, the first infusions of gene edited cells, and the first use of lentivirally-modified cells to treat cancer. Dr. Levine is co-inventor of the first FDA approved gene therapy (Kymriah), chimeric antigen receptor T cells for leukemia and lymphoma, licensed to Novartis. Dr. Levine is co-inventor on 31 issued US patents and co-author of >200 manuscripts and book chapters with a Google Scholar citation h-index of 108. He is a Co-Founder of Tmunity Therapeutics and of Capstan Therapeutics, both spinouts of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Levine is a recipient of the William Osler Patient Oriented Research Award, the Wallace H. Coulter Award for Healthcare Innovation, the National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match ONE Forum 2020 Dennis Confer Innovate Award, the American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy Jerry Mendell Award for Translational Science, and serves as Immediate Past-President of the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy. 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