Meet the team

We are a team of experienced entrepreneurs, scientists, regulatory, and manufacturing experts. Team members have complementary experience growing companies, designing and making proteins, managing preclinical and clinical studies, securing FDA approvals, building first-in-class manufacturing facilities, and more.

Boost’s extended team has worked at major pharmaceutical companies, BARDA, and global CDMOs; participated in Operation Warp Speed and Project NextGen; developed or optimized thousands of proteins; and advanced >70 biologics (>50 vaccines) into the clinic with >15 to licensure/EUA (>10 vaccines to licensure/EUA).

Our collective mission is to create clinically and commercially successful vaccines and therapeutics that address global health threats — to challenge ourselves, grow as a team, and do real good for the world.

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    Steve Gold, M.D.

    Founder & CEO

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    Fritz Schomburg, Ph.D.

    Founder & CSO

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    Charlie DiPietro, M.B.A.

    Founder & COO

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    Dave Rancour, Ph.D.

    Founder & Vice President of R&D

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    Dan Pfaff

    Founder & Director of Lab Operations

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    Amin Khan, Ph.D.

    Corporate Director

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  • Tara Hayward

    Business Development

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    Joe Rininger, Ph.D.

    Regulatory Advisor

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    Bob Huebner, Ph.D.

    Regulatory Advisor

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    Patrick Falvey, Ph.D.

    Regulatory Advisor

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    Thomas Page, Ph.D.

    CMC Advisor

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    Jose Torres

    Quality Advisor

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    Brian McTyre

    Senior Analyst

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    Lisa Krugner-Higby, Ph.D., D.V.M.

    Consultant

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    Arnaud Didierlaurent, Ph.D.

    Consultant

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    Jordan Karp, J.D.

    General Counsel

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