meet kenai therapeutics

We’re a team of curious, compassionate colleagues with a singular purpose: helping people living with neurological disease to restore what matters most in their lives.

executive team

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Rajesh Mistry

Chief Financial Officer

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Derek J. Hei, PhD

Chief Technology Officer

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Yoshiko Stowell, PhD

Vice President of Regulatory Affairs

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Martin Ostrowski, JD

Chief Legal Officer

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Valeria Yartseva, PhD

Director of Preclinical and Translational Biology

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Anton Bittner

Program Director

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Travis Cordie

Associate Director of GMP Manufacturing

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Howard Federoff, MD, PhD

Scientific Co-Founder, Chief Medical Officer and Executive Vice President of Corporate Medicine and Science

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Nicholas Manusos, MBA

Chief Executive Officer

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Anindita Bhoumik

Senior Director of Cell Therapy Research and Development

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Susan McClatchey

Vice President of Quality

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scientific founders

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Howard Federoff, MD, PhD

Scientific Cofounder

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Jeffrey H. Kordower, PhD

Scientific Cofounder

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board of directors

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David Fallace, JD, MBA

Board Member | Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Cure Ventures

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Jeffrey M. Jonas, MD

Chairman of the Board | Partner, Cure Ventures

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Nicholas Manusos, MBA

Board Member | Chief Executive Officer

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Jeff Goater, MBA

Board Member | Partner, The Column Group

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investors

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Cure Ventures logo with a dark blue DNA strand inside a cube and the company name beneath.
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Sailsei Ventures logo with a stylized sail icon and company name in navy blue text.

partnerships

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ClearPoint Neuro logo with a pattern of blue dots on the left and the words 'CLEARPOINT NEURO' in blue text to the right.