2011 2011 12 18 headquarters kendall square cambridge massachusetts united states number of employees 7 1 website vaxess.com vaxess technologies inc. is a company started by a team of four graduate students from harvard that commercializes a tufts university technology to stabilize vaccines so they can be shipped and stored without refrigeration . 2 3 4 contents 1 history 2 technology 3 references 4 external links history edit students michael schrader livio valenti kathryn kosuda and patrick ho started vaxess in december 2011 based on a technology created by david kaplan and fiorenzo omenetto . 5 6 7 schrader graduated with an mba from harvard business school in 2012 . valenti attended the john f. kennedy school of government . kosuda had been a harvard postdoctoral fellow in chemistry and patrick ho had earned a j.d in 2012 . 8 in 2012 vaxess was awarded 25 000 from harvard business school for harvard s business plan contest in the business ventures track . 9 10 5 11 vaxess technologies was a semi finalist for mit s 100k entrepreneurship competition in the life sciences section . 12 13 in 2012 it won the harvard president s challenge in the global health section and was awarded 70 000 . 14 15 16 17 the company was selected as a finalist for two 2013 masstlc awards start up to watch and innovative technology of the year healthcare life sciences . 18 in may of 2013 vaxess received 3.75 m in funding from norwich ventures and an undisclosed amount of money from angel investor jeffrey walker . 19 in august of 2013 the company announced that it would be moving out of harvard s innovation lab to a new location at labcentral in cambridge . 20 21 in december of 2013 the massachusetts life sciences center awarded 1.5 m to local startups . vaxess received 1m of that amount which is the most that the mlsc s accelerator loan program will lend to one organization . vaxess s ceo michael schrader was quoted as saying the 1 million accelerator loan will enable vaxess to grow the company s internal r & d capabilities and deliver heat stable vaccines to patients around the world even sooner . 22 in january of 2014 co founder livio valenti was named by forbes s 30 under 30 in science & healthcare for his work with vaxess . 23 24 25 in february of 2014 vaxess added george siber m.d. to their organization as the chair of their scientific advisory board . previously siber served as the evp and cso of wyeth vaccines . he also played a role in bringing prevnar to market . 26 in april of 2014 vaxess announced that thomas monath md and russell middaugh phd . would join the company s scientific advisory board . monath being an expert in the field of vaccinology and middaugh being an expert in the fields of in the fields of biophysical chemistry and pharmaceutical formulation . 27 in february of 2015 verizon announced that vaxess had won one of the 1m verizon powerful answers awards . verizon issued approximately 6 million is prizes to 12 different organizations across 4 categories . vaxess won first place in the transportation category above hopon and matternet . 28 29 technology edit vaxess s business plan is based around a technology developed by tufts university professors fiorenzo omenetto and david kaplan . the technology uses a silk derived protein called fibroin to stabilize vaccines so that they can be shipped and stored without refrigeration eliminating the need for the cold chain . 30 31 32 vaxess is working with vaccine manufacturers to develop heat stable vaccines and targeting a product launch by 2019 . 33 references edit lester aaron 2014 05 09 . healing outside the box . harvard gazette . retrieved 12 may 2014 . burgstone jon 2012 04 25 . 4 harvard start ups to watch . inc.com . retrieved 18 may 2012 . mit 100k vaxess technologies . massachusetts institute of technology . retrieved 7 may 2012 . parrish kelsey 2014 02 25 . vaxess technologies michael a. schrader interview . outlier magazine . retrieved 9 april 2014 . a b landry 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marinelli andrea 2012 06 13 . vaxess la startup italiana che ha conquistato harvard . america24 . retrieved 14 june 2012 . winning the competition for ideas . boston globe . 2012 05 20 . retrieved 21 may 2012 . cohan peter 2012 08 13 . vaxess goes to harvard . forbes . retrieved 13 august 2012 . external links edit official website vaxess technologies on twitter retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vaxess technologies & oldid 743301965 categories companies established in 2011pharmaceutical companies of the united statesprivately held companies based in massachusettscompanies based in bostonbiotechnology navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated 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