Alan Crane
Founder at Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Alan L.
Crane founded Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in 2001, where he worked as Chief Executive Officer & Director in 2006, Visterra, Inc. in 2007, where he worked as Chairman, Cerulean Pharma, Inc. in 2006, where he worked as Chairman from 2006 to 2014, Eagle Biologics, Inc. in 2013, where he worked as Chairman from 2014 to 2016, Pandion Operations, Inc. in 2017, where he is working as Director from 2017, and Seismic Therapeutic, Inc. in 2022, where he is working as Chairman from 2022.
Mr. Crane also founded Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he is working as Chairman and Calorics Pharmaceuticals, where he worked as Chairman.
Mr. Crane also currently works at Dyno Therapeutics, Inc., as Executive Chairman, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc., as Director, XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc., as Director, KSQ Therapeutics, Inc., as Director, and Polaris Growth Management LLC, as Entrepreneur Partner from 2002.
Mr. Crane also formerly worked at Pandion Therapeutics, Inc., as Chairman, Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc., as Director, Vaccinex, Inc., as Director from 2003 to 2019, Ocular Therapeutix, Inc., as Independent Director from 2009 to 2014, YourBio Health, Inc., as Director, Adnexus, as Director, Hydra Biosciences, Inc., as Director, T2 Biosystems, Inc., as Independent Director from 2007 to 2015, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., as Senior Vice President-Global Corporate Development from 1997 to 2002, ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., as Vice President, Arthur D.
Little, Inc., as Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group, Inc., as Consultant, and DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co., as Marketing Executive.
Mr. Crane received his doctorate degree from Harvard Medical School, Masters Business Admin degree in 1992 from Harvard Business School, and undergraduate degree in 1985 and graduate degree in 1986 from Harvard College.
Alan Crane active positions
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Polaris Growth Management LLC
 Polaris Growth Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Polaris Partners is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1996 by Stephen D. Arnold, Jonathan A. Flint and Terrance G. McGuire. Polaris Partners is headquartered in Waltham. | Private Equity Investor | 01/01/2002 |
XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops drugs for the treatment of cancer. The firm develops pharmaceutical products for use in the diagnosis and treatment of oncological, tumor and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Alan L. Crane, Rakesh Kumar Jain, Andrew Werk Cook, Edwin L. Steele, David H. Koch, Ronald Evans, Howard Hughes and Robert S. Langer, Jr. in 2011 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops medicine for age-related diseases. Its drug discovery platform targets mTORC1, which responds to and integrates the cell’s response to nutrient availability and plays a key role in protein synthesis and cellular growth. The company was founded by Alan L. Crane, David Sabatini and David Goldfarb and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Founder | - |
Pandion Operations, Inc.
 Pandion Operations, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Pandion Operations, Inc. develops drugs for autoimmune, inflammatory, and transplant indications. The company was founded by Anthony J. Coyle, Jo Viney, Alan Crane, and David Sachs in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Founder | 01/01/2017 |
KSQ Therapeutics, Inc.
 KSQ Therapeutics, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology KSQ Therapeutics, Inc. develops and deploys precision functional genomics to discover therapies that transform patient lives. The company was founded by Tim Wang and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc.
 Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. provides fundraising and social planning services. It services include case management, job training, legal services to help navigate and obtain public benefits. The company was founded on April 25, 1895 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Dyno Therapeutics, Inc.
 Dyno Therapeutics, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Dyno Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of therapeutics technologies. It develops technologies for safe, efficient and targeted in vivo delivery of new gene therapies and genome editing therapies. The company was founded by Kelsic Eric David and is headquartered in Watertown, MA. | Chairman | - |
Seismic Therapeutic, Inc.
 Seismic Therapeutic, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Seismic Therapeutic, Inc. is a biotechnology company located in the biotechnology hub. The American company is making a major shift in how immunology therapies are discovered and developed, enabled by machine learning. Seismic Therapeutic has a growing preclinical stage and first-in-class biologics pipeline, derived from its integrated impact platform, to control dysregulated adaptive immunity and address multiple autoimmune diseases. The company was founded by Joanne Viney, Alan L. Crane, and Joanne Viney has been the CEO since incorporation. | Founder | 10/02/2022 |
Former positions of Alan Crane
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Training of Alan Crane
| Harvard Medical School | Doctorate Degree |
| Harvard Business School | Masters Business Admin |
| Harvard College | Graduate Degree |
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Linked companies
| Listed companies | 3 |
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| VACCINEXPAR | Health Technology |
| OCULAR THERAPEUTIX, INC. | Health Technology |
| T2 BIOSYSTEMS, INC. | Health Technology |
| Private companies | 23 |
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Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. Its products include Ninlaro and Velcade. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Health Technology |
| ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | Commercial Services |
Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that focuses on the discovery and development of novel biologic therapies for the treatment of rare immune-mediated diseases. Its products include the Glatiramer acetate injection and Enoxaparin Sodium injection. The company was founded by Ram Sasisekharan, Paul R. Schimmel, and Ganesh Venkatraman Kaundinya in May 2001 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Health Technology |
Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a GSK company, is developing small molecule drugs that target the sirtuins, a family of seven enzymes associated with diseases of aging. Modulation of these enzymes offers the promise of drug discovery in multiple therapeutic areas. Sirtris was one of the pharmaceutical companies focused on the sirtuin platform and remains the innovative drug discovery. Preclinical research indicates that the sirtuins play important roles in pathways for multiple diseases of aging, including Type 2 Diabetes, as well as neurodegenerative, cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases. Sirtris researchers are working to translate this research into a potential new class of pharmaceuticals to treat diseases of aging, offering the ability for people to live longer, healthier lives. Sirtris has focused on developing many novel small molecule activators of SIRT1, the most studied member of the sirtuin family. These new chemical entities or NCEs are novel compounds that are chemically unrelated to resveratrol, a naturally occurring compound that was used as an early proof-of-concept for SIRT1 activation. Besides being structurally differentiated from resveratrol, the NCEs are more specific for the target SIRT1 and have improved drug-like properties. The company has completed several early stage translational clinical studies with the first generation NCEs and has several active clinical trials under way. Sirtris operates as an independent Discovery Performance Unit (DPU) within GSK and is located in Technology Square, Cambridge, Mass. Sirtris' culture mixes scientific curiosity with a dynamic, fast-paced environment, resembling its biotech roots while harnessing all of GSK's broad discovery, development, and commercialization capabilities. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Health Technology |
Visterra, Inc.
 Visterra, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Visterra, Inc. Is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of antibody-based therapies for kidney diseases, and other chronic diseases. It focuses on its research technology platform, HIEROTOPE technology. The company was founded by Alan L. Crane, Kevin J. Bitterman and Ram Sasisekharan on December 20, 2007 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA. | Health Technology |
YourBio Health, Inc.
 YourBio Health, Inc. Electronic Equipment/InstrumentsElectronic Technology YourBio Health, Inc. develops health monitoring products. It is developing an array of products based on the company's proprietary TAP? (Touch Activated Phlebotomy) painless blood collection platform. The company was founded by Richard Rox Anderson, Joerg Lahann, Robert S. Langer Jr., Douglas A. Levinson and Samir Mitragotri in 2008 and is headquartered in Medford, MA. | Electronic Technology |
Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops medicine for age-related diseases. Its drug discovery platform targets mTORC1, which responds to and integrates the cell’s response to nutrient availability and plays a key role in protein synthesis and cellular growth. The company was founded by Alan L. Crane, David Sabatini and David Goldfarb and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Health Technology |
Polaris Growth Management LLC
Polaris Growth Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Polaris Partners is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1996 by Stephen D. Arnold, Jonathan A. Flint and Terrance G. McGuire. Polaris Partners is headquartered in Waltham. | Finance |
Arthur D. Little, Inc.
 Arthur D. Little, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Arthur D. Little, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in strategy and organization, operations management, technology and innovation management, corporate finance, and global carbon advisory serving corporations and organizations worldwide. The firm serves the automotive, healthcare, information, chemicals, consumer goods, retail, manufacturing, and transportation industries. The company was founded by Arthur Dehon Little and Roger Griffin in October 1886 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Commercial Services |
The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.
 The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Commercial Services |
DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co.
 DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Part of Corteva, Inc., DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co. is a private company that makes pharmaceuticals and drugs. The company is based in Wilmington, DE. DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical was acquired by EIDP, Inc., a subsidiary of Corteva, Inc. from Merck & Co., Inc. on July 01, 1998 for $2,600 million. | Health Technology |
Adnexus
 Adnexus Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Adnexus engages in the development of Adnectins biologics and medicines in the United States. The company was founded by Frank D. Lee on September 16, 2002 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA. | Health Technology |
Hydra Biosciences, Inc.
 Hydra Biosciences, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Hydra Biosciences, Inc. develops pharmaceutical products. It is focused in major therapeutic areas, which include pain, inflammation, renal, anxiety, and pulmonary diseases. The company was founded by Laurie Bartlett Keating, Dean Y. Li, David E. Clapham, and Mark T. Keating in 2001 and is headquartered in Belmont, MA. | Health Technology |
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc.
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. provides fundraising and social planning services. It services include case management, job training, legal services to help navigate and obtain public benefits. The company was founded on April 25, 1895 and is headquartered in Boston, MA. | Commercial Services |
Cerulean Pharma, Inc.
 Cerulean Pharma, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Cerulean Pharma, Inc. is a clinical-stage, oncology-focused company, which provides proprietary Dynamic Tumor Targeting Platform to develop differentiated therapies. It specializes in the design and development of nanopharmaceuticals. Cerulean's nanopharmaceuticals are drug-containing nanoparticles designed and optimized to enhance therapeutic agents, ranging from small molecules to therapeutic peptides and RNAi molecules. The company was founded by Alan L. Crane and Ram Sasisekharn on November 28, 2005 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA. | Health Technology |
XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops drugs for the treatment of cancer. The firm develops pharmaceutical products for use in the diagnosis and treatment of oncological, tumor and inflammatory diseases. The company was founded by Alan L. Crane, Rakesh Kumar Jain, Andrew Werk Cook, Edwin L. Steele, David H. Koch, Ronald Evans, Howard Hughes and Robert S. Langer, Jr. in 2011 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA. | Health Technology |
| Calorics Pharmaceuticals | |
KSQ Therapeutics, Inc.
KSQ Therapeutics, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology KSQ Therapeutics, Inc. develops and deploys precision functional genomics to discover therapies that transform patient lives. The company was founded by Tim Wang and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Health Technology |
Pandion Operations, Inc.
Pandion Operations, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Pandion Operations, Inc. develops drugs for autoimmune, inflammatory, and transplant indications. The company was founded by Anthony J. Coyle, Jo Viney, Alan Crane, and David Sachs in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Commercial Services |
Dyno Therapeutics, Inc.
Dyno Therapeutics, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Dyno Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of therapeutics technologies. It develops technologies for safe, efficient and targeted in vivo delivery of new gene therapies and genome editing therapies. The company was founded by Kelsic Eric David and is headquartered in Watertown, MA. | Health Technology |
Pandion Therapeutics, Inc.
 Pandion Therapeutics, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Pandion Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company. It develops Therapeutic Autoimmune reguLatOry proteiN (TALON) drug design and discovery platform, which employ a modular approach to create a pipeline of product candidates using immunomodulatory effector modules that act at known control nodes within the immune network. The company was founded by Dr. Joanne Viney on September 19, 2016 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA. | Health Technology |
Seismic Therapeutic, Inc.
Seismic Therapeutic, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Seismic Therapeutic, Inc. is a biotechnology company located in the biotechnology hub. The American company is making a major shift in how immunology therapies are discovered and developed, enabled by machine learning. Seismic Therapeutic has a growing preclinical stage and first-in-class biologics pipeline, derived from its integrated impact platform, to control dysregulated adaptive immunity and address multiple autoimmune diseases. The company was founded by Joanne Viney, Alan L. Crane, and Joanne Viney has been the CEO since incorporation. | Technology Services |
Eagle Biologics, Inc.
 Eagle Biologics, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Eagle Biologics, Inc. provides bio technological solutions. It develops protein-based antibody drugs by use of technology. The company was founded by Alan L. Crane, Alex Klibanov, and Robert S. Langer Jr. in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. | Health Technology |
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