Dmitri Bobilev

Vedanta Biosciences, Inc. develops microbial therapies that address the human immune system. It engages in the development of a new class of drugs that work by modulating the human microbiome, with an initial emphasis in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Ruslan Medzhitov, Alexander Rudensky, Brett Finlay, Kenya Honda, Dan Littman, Bernat Olle and David Steinberg in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Checkmate Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company, which engages in developing and commercializing proprietary technology to harness the power of the immune system to combat cancer. The firm's product candidate, vidutolimod is a differentiated TLR9 agonist delivered as a biologic virus-like particle designed to trigger the body's innate immune system to attack tumors in combination with other therapies. The company was founded by Arthur M. Krieg and Chuck Yo in July 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.