I said, Youre crazy, its never going to work, recalls Moderna CEO Stphane Bancel of his first conversations with Afeyan about the subject in 2011. But thats the way Noubar thinks, and he has stuck with it the whole time.. Indigo Agriculture was founded in 2013 to use microbes to make seeds more productive. Here, he outlines his startup process. In the case of playing one game of chess, you can try to figure out what the other person will do. Founded in 2000, Flagship is an enterprise where entrepreneurially-minded scientists invent seemingly unreasonable solutions to challenges facing human health and sustainability. [7][1][3] He was the first PhD graduate from MITs Center for Bioprocess Engineering, at the time the only institution with that degree program. So far, 30 of Afeyans companies have completed the entire process. And its not a joke. He is also co-founder and Board Chairman of Moderna. In July, Ring raised $117 million, bringing in T. Rowe Price among other investors. As Moderna shares plunge below $50 in Wednesday morning trading, I called back to my Forbes article of last week. A voluntary diaspora occurred when Jews dispersed in search of worldwide opportunities.Jews simply got a big head start. Beyond his stake in Moderna, he also owns shares in more than a dozen publicly traded biotech companies in the U.S. Founder and CEO, Flagship Pioneering. Another Novavax executive, president of research and development Glenn Gregory, sold nearly $20 million (pretax) in shares since March 2020. Noubar Afeyan, chairman and co-founder of Moderna, joins Fareed to talk about the new Omicron coronavirus variant. His wife, Brenda, who studied at Harvard's Divinity School, recently launched a second foundation called Champions of Love. How did you come to write about how Jews in general changed the world? SheKnows. [33] and Future Armenian public initiative. Actually not a bar, but a research lab. [10], Besides English, Afeyan speaks Western Armenian. But this meant every Jew had to be literate, to know the Torah. He has served as Chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Chemicals, Advanced Materials and Biotechnology of the . Flagship has most recently created 2 subsidiaries; Flagship Biosciences, and Flagship Labs, both overseen by Paul . on track to return investors money 15-fold. The second time, the German officers who were carrying out the deportations realized his grandfather had blue eyes and spoke Germanand helped them to survive. Gong Yingying is the founder and chairwoman of Chinese healthcare tech firm Yidu Tech, which used its AI and big data technology to help the hard-hit city of Wuhan conduct contact tracing and coordinate its emergency response. While scientists had talked about the microbiome for years, when Afeyan first broached the idea in 2008 of exploring its role in disease, including autoimmune diseases and cancer, it was pretty far out on the fringe. After PerSeptives acquisition by Perkin Elmer/Applera Corporation in 1998, he became senior vice president and chief business officer of Applera, where he initiated and oversaw the creation of Celera Genomics. The next biggest seller is Bancels colleague and Modernas chief medical officer, Tal Zaks, who made $108.2 million (pretax) in sales of Moderna shares. Later reports raised its effectiveness to 95%. We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. Mahler was Jewish, but very remote from Judaism. As its assets have grown the pace at which Flagship has founded startups has accelerated. Hernandez and many of the other speakers stressed that in the current anti-immigrant mood, it was important to hold just such a program and discuss the common purpose and shared values of all people. Noubar Afeyan is the founder and CEO of Cambridge, Mass. [7] The company's annual revenues grew to $100 million and in 1998 was acquired by PerkinElmer/Applera and became CBO of Applera. THERE IS an interesting theory about the origins of extraordinary Jewish achievement, by Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein, The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492. Copyright 2021 The Armenian Mirror-Spectator. Bancel knew he needed to reach out to Moderna cofounder Noubar Afeyan, the serial biotech entrepreneur who runs Flagship Pioneering in Cambridge and chairs Moderna's board of directors. Moderna Co-founder Speaks on Innovation, Imagination and the Immigrant Mindset. But there are great many other Jewish geniuses in his book, far less well-known. Dai Lizhong is the chairman of diagnostics firm Sansure Biotech, which makes Covid-19 tests and had its diagnostic kits authorized by the FDA in May 2020. [2] In total, he co-founded or helped build over 50 life science and technology startups. I bow to his heart, his mind and to his legacy.. Founded in 2000, Flagship is an enterprise where entrepreneurially-minded scientists invent seemingly unreasonable solutions to challenges facing human health and sustainability. Noubar Afeyan. In September 2020, Ron Hovsepian, the former CEO of software firm Novell who joined Flagship as an executive partner two years earlier, took over as CEO. As a 10-year-old venture firm-founded company, Moderna is not far removed from its startup roots. Afeyan was born in Beirut and his family later moved to Montreal, Canada. Fireside chat: Emergent innovation. NOUBAR AFEYAN, CO-FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN, MODERNA: Great to be here, Walter. [15] In 2020 Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan lauded Afeyan, Vardanyan and Gregorian for "glorifying humanity," and "materializ[ing] the noble idea of immortalizing the memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide."[31]. While Modernas chairman may be behind the biggest sales, the pharmaceutical executive who personally sold the most shares is Moderna CEO Stphane Bancel. The gala, like so many other events of the past year, was held "virtually" that is, it was livestreamed as a Zoom meeting to a group of viewers who signed up beforehand. With $17 billion and a model of "parallel entrepreneurship," he can fund a lot of wild. The writer heads the Zvi Griliches Research Data Center at S. Neaman Institute, Technion and blogs at www.timnovate.wordpress.com, Hebrew edition: Kinneret, Zmora, Dvir: Modi-in, 2020, 511 pages, Sign up for The Jerusalem Post Premium Plus for just $5, Upgrade your reading experience with an ad-free environment and exclusive content. This past April, for example, Ohana Biosciences, a fertility company that focused on sperm-based treatments, shut its doors and laid off most of its staff a little over a year after emerging from stealth. Dunleavy is the founder of cloud-based healthcare data analytics outfit Inovalon, which is working with the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to administer Covid-19 vaccines using its software platform. Noubar Afeyan (Western Armenian: ; born in 1962) is an American-Canadian entrepreneur, inventor, and philanthropist. Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947. Together with his partners, he has launched philanthropic projects including the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, FAST Foundation, and the UWC Dilijan School. Executives at Moderna and other pharma companies that developed vaccines for Covid-19, including Pfizer and Novavax, sold a further $400 million in shares over the same time period, for a total of $1.9 billion. Part of it is an innate comfort with discomfort and with not thinking that everything has to be just so.. At the conclusion of the event, Afeyan said, I am happy that the occasion brought this many people out to support the Armenian Heritage Park.. Afeyan is leveraging that success to raise boatloads of new cash. [1], Afeyan sits on the boards of the MIT Corporation, the Boston Symphony Orchestra,[21][22][15] and the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU). [32][15][2], a founding angel of Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST). He sold about 1.7 million shares7% of his stakefor a combined $161.2 million (pretax) since March 2020, taking advantage of the stocks blistering rise since the onset of the pandemic. Noubar has always fundamentally believed that you can change the world with platform science, says Evelos Gill. The work in the microbiome, in part, led to more recent work on viruses as Afeyan and his team questioned whether there are viruses in our bodies that arent pathological. [1] [9], Afeyan is the founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, a venture capital company focused on biotechnology, in 2000. Noubar Afeyan (born July 25, 1962), is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, inventor, technologist, and CEO. Bancel is the CEO of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna, which had its Covid-19 vaccine authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on December 18, 2020. Exactly a year later, it is now worth $302.42. Noubar invented the model, if you will, and essentially trained us in doing this.. Noubar has to find the way increasingly to figure out how to run a bigger organization and keep his finger on the pulse, says David Epstein, who joined Flagship as an executive partner in 2017 after having been CEO of Novartis Pharmaceuticals. It was a message reiterated by Dr. Avak Kahvejian of Flagship Pioneering, who was chair of the benefit. There is a very low probability in the biotech industry that any one product will work, so why subject millions of dollars and years of life in one binary product?, Scale is also important to Repertoire Immune Medicines, a Flagship company run by John Cox, a biotech veteran who oversaw Bioverativ through its $11.6 billion sale to Sanofi. Below are key takeaways from a conversation this week around Moderna's early days, its startup DNA, immigrant leadership, and why the recent focus on a COVID-19 vaccine should not be called a pivot. . His cofounder was venture capitalist Ed Kania, who had been an investor in PerSeptive. March 5th, 2021, 1:03 PM PST. Dr. Noubar Afeyan, 58, is co-founder and chairman of the biotech company Moderna. Oyler is the CEO and cofounder of Beijing-based drugmaker BeiGene, which signed an agreement with biotech outfit Singlomics Pharmaceuticals in August to develop, manufacture and sell Singlomics antibody treatment for Covid-19. 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Anna and Noubar are Founding Patrons of UWC Dilijan. ( 25, 1962 [1], , ), , Flagship Ventures [2] . The best of these subsidiaries will eventually take on outside investors before (hopefully) going public. Meet America's newest billionaires - Moderna founders Noubar Afeyan and Robert Langer, and investor Timothy Springer. He starts with those what-if questions. [16][17], Afeyan started his first biotechnology company in 1987, just a few days before Black Monday, and founded or co-founded five more companies within ten years. Noubar Afeyan is founder, Senior Managing Partner and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, a leading innovation and early-stage venture capital firm. Outside that is where people think its reckless to workbut thats exactly where Flagship wants to be. [4], Afeyan was born to Armenian parents in Beirut, Lebanon in 1962. If the idea proves promising enough, Flagship invests, and it operates for a time as a wholly owned subsidiary. Editors note, April 22, 2021: This story was updated with comment from Flagship Pioneering. He is also co-founder and Board Chairman of Moderna. Troendle is the CEO and founder of Cincinnati-based contract research firm Medpace, which helps pharmaceutical companies run clinical trials for Covid-19 drugs and also offers testing services at its labs. [1][3][2] His grandfather survived the Armenian genocide. Donald Trump cannot take credit for the vaccines. The program consisted of speeches, video footage of the new building, and montages of past NAASR events and of the lives of . . What is good about immigrants is that they are the ultimate founders; they are the founders of a new life. The shares were sold at an average price of $139.00, for a transaction totalling $1,390,000.00. Afeyan, of Lexington, checked in tied for 1,804th. Hernandez added: I am proud of what this country has become. Biography of Noubar Afeyan Noubar B. Afeyan, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since 2013. Gratitude, he said, is the ultimate renewable resource, infecting giver and receiver positively. It was a very difficult time for biology. Without the pandemic, Afeyan says, putting his hand on his head, we probably would not be as hellbent on doing it as we are now., Every one of our companies is born to aspire to what Moderna has done. He is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. AboutPressCopyrightContact. degree at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. More than a few of those in the book, Lebrecht notes, fit this elusive category men and women who find the strength, in a time of crisis, to forge new paths in superhuman ways, with incredible genius for action and invention. The anomaly that Jews, constituting a fraction of one percent of world population, should be responsible for almost half the breakthroughs in society, arts and the sciences between the middle of the 19th and 20th centuries, was a question that had preoccupied me for half my adult life. Gregorian is the former president of Brown University as well as the NewYork Public Library. He was also awarded a Great Immigrant honor from the Carnegie Corporation in 2016, received a Technology Pioneer award from the World Economic Forum in 2012, and was presented with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2008. Noubar is a member of the Corporation of MIT (the Institute's governing body) and a member of the board of overseers for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. I was literally mesmerized. Afeyan says, I started to learn everything I could about how to start companies., If you play parallel chess, you have got to get to the essence. Some, such as Moderna CEO Stphane Bancel and BioNTech cofounder Uur ahin, have become household names thanks to the vaccines they helped develop. Afeyan, who Forbes estimates has a net worth of $2.3 billion, owns a large stake in Moderna largely through his majority ownership of Flagship, which he established in 2000 as a firm to build and fund promising startups in life sciences and technology. Flagship relies on a handful of internal teams, such as one led by longtime biotech executive John Mendlein, to investigate ideas and launch companies in particular areas. Thousands of firms in this countrys history have been founded by immigrants, he said. Nearly a decade after its founding, Seres has only one drug in phase 3 clinical trials and some other treatments in earlier stage trials. If so, how do you respond? He received the Golden Door Award in 2017 from the International Institute of New England in recognition of his contribution to the US as a foreign-born American. Marty Martinez (Leo Gozbekian photo). The park symbolizes our diversity. During his career as inventor, entrepreneur, and CEO, Noubar has cofounded and helped build over 70 life science and technology startups. Noubar Afeyan fully understood those risks when he co-founded Moderna in 2010. LEBRECH RECOUNDS the genius of such well-known figures as Marx, Freud, Einstein and Kafka. Over time, Afeyan set up a structure for brainstorming new companies. Getty Images for Aurora. [7] He received his B.Eng. Flagship filed 341 patent applications in 2020, more than double the number it had filed two years earlier; in the first half of this year, it cranked out 379 patent applications. But that is not the reason I wrote Genius and Anxiety. Modernas chief medical officer is Dr. Tal Zaks, an Israeli who completed his M.D. That mindset of parallel entrepreneurship to me was a provocation.. He also noted the organizations #AraratChallenge, a global crowdfunding campaign aimed at supporting those in urgent need of basic humanitarian aid around the world. Dr. Noubar Afeyan recently spoke to the Belmont Hill and Winsor communities in a webinar during which he also answered questions submitted by students. Karin Sartorius-Herbst and her sister Ulrike Baro own stakes in German biopharma outfit Sartorius AG, founded by their great-grandfather Florenz Sartorius in 1870. Moderna has clearly super-powered those returns. 2000 - Present23 years. At the age of 13, he immigrated with his family to Canada and attended [], Ph.D, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Bachelor of Science, McGill University. ISAACSON: You have this big report that's just come out with the Eurasian group and you and others and it talked about . Shortly after the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, markets collapsed and economies around the world plunged into recession. Dr. Noubar Afeyan's 32-year career as an inventor, entrepreneur and CEO has . Like other Flagship companies, its also a so-called platform company, something that Afeyan argues reduces the risk of the startups in its portfolio and allows any of them to shift from one area to another as the need arises, as Moderna did with Covid-19 vaccines. When he used to come home from school, she did not ask him what he learned that day, but rather asked, what good questions did you ask in school today, Isadore?Later, Rabis good questions helped led him to discover nuclear magnetic resonance the foundation of todays lifesaving MRI imaging devices. Noubar Afeyan launched 70 companies by pushing researchers to ask what if their craziest ideas were true. Rounding out the group of Moderna sellers is Juan Andres, the firms chief technical operations and quality officer, who sold shares worth $27.2 million. The representatives, when singled out, received thunderous applause. On the contrary, reviews of the UK and US editions by non-Jews have been very positive, some with an air of near-astonishment, indicating that previous historians had not connected the dots between the vast number of Jews who were active in the period. Short films were shown about the park and the evenings honoree. Boston is a city built by immigrants. Flagship Pioneering Founder & CEO Noubar Afeyan, Ph.D, reflects on some of the forces shaping biotech, the areas ripe for bold leaps, and the lessons to carry forward as we continue to grapple with the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic. That mindset of parallel entrepreneurship to me was a provocation., In 1989, Afeyan founded PerSeptive Biosystems, a Framingham, Mass.-based maker of instrumentation used by biotech companies. Hes very provocative and very challenging and very demanding, says Simba Gill, CEO of Evelo Biosciences, a Flagship company focused on the microbiome, who first met Afeyan more than two decades ago. During his talk he asked the first-, second- or third-generation immigrants in the audience to rise. Franklin was only 37 when she died of ovarian cancer; the many X-rays she absorbed in her lab may have been a factor. By incubating its own ideas and doing all the seed and early stage venture funding itself, Flagship typically still owns 50% or so at the time of its startups IPOs, according to Afeyan. Shares in companies producing vaccines, antibodies and other tools to combat the Covid-19 pandemic have skyrocketed since March 2020. Bancel. And. I thought I didnt have much of a downside, he says. That is a huge, huge advantage. How does one describe someone who has helped found 38 companies? Ren Jinsheng is the founder and chairman of pharmaceuticals supplier Simcere Pharmaceutical Group, which increased its production of antiviral drugs arbidol and zanamivir in response to higher demand in the hopes they could help treat Covid-19. The timeline: A vaccine in under a year. Theres also a structure to how Flagships researchers consider dozens of ideas, accepting some and rejecting others. Photo by Jake Belcher. How I Built This: Moderna and Flagship Pioneering: Noubar Afeyan, Noubar Afeyan on the What's Your Problem? Pfizers CEO is Albert Bourla. His company, Flagship Pioneering, is in the business of starting other companies using a methodological set of steps. From left, Raffi Afeyan; Taleen Afeyan; Anna Afeyan, Noubar Afeyan, Alex Afeyan. Isadore Rabi, son of Russian migrs, credited his mom with his Nobel Prize in physics. My mother and father were among them, driven by economic hardship, persecution, and the huge political upheavals of the 19th century. Dr. Zaks believes the initial doses will arrive in Israel in early 2021. Flagship Pioneering. Rao Wei and Weng Xianding are the chairman and majority shareholder, respectively, of biomedical firm Shenzhen New Industries Biological Engineering, which makes a number of Covid-19 diagnostic tests. Since Flagships launch, Afeyan has helped start some 70 companies. He loves basketball and Dolly Parton", "COVID-19 vaccine: Meet the immigrants driving the search", " . Even after its recent pullback, Moderna stock is up eight-fold since March 2020. What if not all viruses were bad? I think its not natural for him, its not comfortable.The man is doing many, many things simultaneously., Like many Armenians, Noubar Afeyans family moved from country to country, trying to find a safe haven. 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