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Aaron Kantoff

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Scion Life Sciences

New York, New York

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder & Managing Partner

    2022

  • Board Member

    2024

    Leading research foundation for the diagnosis and treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

  • Board Member

    2022

    Developing transformative medicines that dramatically improve the lives of patients with immune & inflammatory diseases. Lead program, TOUR001, is an anti-IL6L for treatment of autoantibody mediated diseases and inflammatory cardiovascular disorders. NASDAQ: TRML

2020 - 2024

  • Founding Board Member

    2020 - 2024

    Targeted Radiotherapy. Acquired by Bristol Myers Squibb for $4.1B.

  • Board Member

    2020 - 2022

    NASDAQ: CNTA

2020 - 2021

  • Venture Partner

    2020 - 2021

2018 - 2019

  • Board Member

    2018 - 2019

    Leading metabolic disease company. Developing a long-acting Fc Fusion modified fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), AKR-001, for NASH and other metabolic diseases. NASDAQ: AKRO

2016 - 2019

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2019

    Developing precision medicines for cardiovascular disease Acquired by Novo Nordisk for $2.1B in total cash considerations

  • Board Member

    2015 - 2019

    Elstar Therapeutics is leveraging recent technological advances in antibody engineering to generate best-in-class multi-specific and multi-functional immunotherapies. These molecules harness our growing understanding of immune modulation to treat a variety of hematological malignancies and solid tumors.

2011 - 2019

  • Partner

    2011 - 2019

    Apple Tree Partners (ATP), is a venture capital firm that invests in and builds biotech companies.