Stephen Albert Johnston | CEO
CALVIRI

Stephen Albert Johnston, CEO, CALVIRI

Stephen Albert Johnston is the inventor of Calviri’s central technologies. In addition to Calviri, he has been a founder of Eliance, Inc. (Macrogenics), Synbody Biotechnology and HealthTell (iCx), Inc. He is Director of the Arizona State University Biodesign Institute’s Center for Innovations in Medicine and Professor in the School of Life Sciences. He has ~ 200 peer-reviewed papers and holds ~45 patents. Prior to his appointment at ASU he was Professor and Director of the Center for Biomedical Inventions at UT-Southwestern Medical Center and Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. He is a member of the National Academy of Inventors. Notable inventions and co-inventions include pathogen-derived resistance, the gene gun, organelle transformation, synbody therapeutics, immunosignatures and high-density peptide arrays. With John Sanford he invented the concept of immunizing with DNA and RNA (gene vaccines) over 30 years ago.

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Day 2 - November 29 @ 15:00

Demonstration of a universal preventative cancer vaccine

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