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