Alan Crane

Founder at

Seismic Therapeutic, Inc.

62 year

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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 Calorics Pharmaceuticals, where he worked as Chairman, Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he worked as Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, and Zag Bio, Inc., where he is working 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 invests primarily in companies in the consumer technology, digital media/entertainment, e-Commerce, network hardware, software and semiconductors sectors. They invest in seed, early-stage and high growth, middle-market companies. The firm's early-stage investments focus on information technology and life sciences companies. Within the information technology sector, Polaris looks for companies that are developing Internet and broadband infrastructure, enterprise software products, e-Commerce products/services, digital media/entertainment, consumer software, network hardware and network software. In the life sciences sector, the firm looks for companies that are developing medical devices, pharmaceuticals, genomics, proteomics, drug delivery, medical services and consumer products and services. Polaris' private equity efforts focus on high-growth, middle-market companies in industries including technology, healthcare, digital media, consumer products and services and business services. Polaris serves as the lead or co-lead investor in the vast majority of their portfolio companies. The firm participates in minority growth equity investments, recapitalizations with liquidity and LBOs.	Private Equity Investor	2001-12-31
XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc. XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Develops drugs for the treatment of cancer	Director/Board Member	-
Pandion Operations, Inc. Pandion Operations, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Develops drugs for autoimmune, inflammatory and transplant indications	Founder	2016-12-31
KSQ Therapeutics, Inc. KSQ Therapeutics, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Operates as a biotechnology company that develops therapeutics for cancer	Director/Board Member	-
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides fundraising and social planning services	Director/Board Member	-
Dyno Therapeutics, Inc. Dyno Therapeutics, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Operates as a biotechnology company that uses artificial intelligence for gene therapy	Chairman	-
Seismic Therapeutic, Inc. Seismic Therapeutic, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops machine learning immunology therapies	Founder	2022-02-09

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PANDION THERAPEUTICS, INC.	Chairman	2021-03-31
VACCINEX, INC.	Director/Board Member	2019-05-13
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Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Manufactures medicines for oncology treatment	Health Technology
ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ChemGenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Engages in pharmaceutical research	Commercial Services
Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Operates as a biotechnology company that discovers and develops novel biologic therapies for the treatment of rare immune-mediated diseases	Health Technology
Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Manufactures drugs and pharmaceuticals	Health Technology
Vaccinex, Inc. Vaccinex, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Discovers and develops targeted biotherapeutics	Health Technology
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes therapies for retinal diseases & conditions of the eye	Health Technology
Visterra, Inc. Visterra, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Operates as a biopharmaceutical company	Health Technology
YourBio Health, Inc. YourBio Health, Inc. Medical SpecialtiesHealth Technology Develops capillary whole blood sampling technology	Health Technology
Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Navitor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Develops targeted therapeutics	Health Technology
Polaris Growth Management LLC Polaris Growth Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Polaris Partners invests primarily in companies in the consumer technology, digital media/entertainment, e-Commerce, network hardware, software and semiconductors sectors. They invest in seed, early-stage and high growth, middle-market companies. The firm's early-stage investments focus on information technology and life sciences companies. Within the information technology sector, Polaris looks for companies that are developing Internet and broadband infrastructure, enterprise software products, e-Commerce products/services, digital media/entertainment, consumer software, network hardware and network software. In the life sciences sector, the firm looks for companies that are developing medical devices, pharmaceuticals, genomics, proteomics, drug delivery, medical services and consumer products and services. Polaris' private equity efforts focus on high-growth, middle-market companies in industries including technology, healthcare, digital media, consumer products and services and business services. Polaris serves as the lead or co-lead investor in the vast majority of their portfolio companies. The firm participates in minority growth equity investments, recapitalizations with liquidity and LBOs.	Finance
Arthur D. Little, Inc. Arthur D. Little, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides management consulting services	Commercial Services
The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides management consulting services	Commercial Services
DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co. DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Co. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Makes pharmaceuticals and drugs	Health Technology
Adnexus Adnexus Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Develops medicines which includes protein antagonists	Health Technology
Hydra Biosciences, Inc. Hydra Biosciences, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Develops molecular regeneration medicines to treat pain, inflammation, anxiety and other diseases	Health Technology
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides fundraising and social planning services	Commercial Services
Cerulean Pharma, Inc. Cerulean Pharma, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Design and develops nanopharmaceuticals	Health Technology
T2 Biosystems, Inc. T2 Biosystems, Inc. Medical SpecialtiesHealth Technology Develops, manufactures and markets in-vitro diagnostic products	Health Technology
Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc. XTuit Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Develops drugs for the treatment of cancer	Health Technology
Harvard Business School Harvard Business School Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Harvard College Harvard College Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
Calorics Pharmaceuticals
Eagle Biologics, Inc. Eagle Biologics, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Provides bio technological solutions	Health Technology
KSQ Therapeutics, Inc. KSQ Therapeutics, Inc. BiotechnologyHealth Technology Operates as a biotechnology company that develops therapeutics for cancer	Health Technology
Pandion Operations, Inc. Pandion Operations, Inc. Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Develops drugs for autoimmune, inflammatory and transplant indications	Commercial Services
Dyno Therapeutics, Inc. Dyno Therapeutics, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Operates as a biotechnology company that uses artificial intelligence for gene therapy	Technology Services
Pandion Therapeutics, Inc. Pandion Therapeutics, Inc. Pharmaceuticals: MajorHealth Technology Operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company which develops novel therapeutics for autoimmune diseases	Health Technology
Seismic Therapeutic, Inc. Seismic Therapeutic, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Develops machine learning immunology therapies	Technology Services

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