Some of the bigger financial hits have included AIR (bought by Alkermes for more than $100 million in 1999), Momenta Pharmaceuticals (IPO in 2004), and TransForm Pharmaceuticals (bought by Johnson & Johnson for $230 million in 2005). Still, it’s hard to say if there has been a home run among the companies yet (we’re willing to give them a little more time). “Still, they all started with the relationship to Langer.”įrom what I can tell, all the companies are either still in business or have been acquired-which is impressive in itself. “To be clear, I am not the only Polaris person to work with Bob, and some of the branches of the tree lead to companies where Bob is not the principal founder (such as Cerulean),” McGuire told me via e-mail. Call it the Langer-Polaris family tree-it shows their 17 startups in roughly chronological order (newer ones at the top), with branches that signify contributions from key collaborators and founders such as MIT’s Michael Cima (MicroCHIPS, TransForm, T2, Taris) and Ram Sasisekharan (Momenta, Cerulean, Visterra), and Harvard’s David Edwards (AIR, Pulmatrix). A consensus scheme for diagnosing malnutrition in adults in clinical settings on a global scale is proposed.
#Glims mit langer series
McGuire also presented a series of slides that captured the history and impact of the two-decade collaboration (see below). (You can also check out video of an earlier in-depth chat with Langer and McGuire, moderated by my colleague Wade, for more on how the duo goes about building companies.) They talked about their formula for creating and building life sciences companies based around six elements: platform technologies, tangible products, pioneering science, patents, real data, and a collaborative team environment. The artwork Steckenpferd trumt mit dem Regenbogen by Ruediger Jan Roehl is clearly readable and. And when you’re talking about an MIT Institute Professor (and his collaborators) and the co-founder of Polaris Venture Partners (and his colleagues), that adds significant weight to the achievement.Įarlier this month, Bob Langer from MIT and Terry McGuire from Polaris treated Xconomy and our “VC65” event audience to a discussion of their collaboration over the years.
That’s about as prolific as any entrepreneur-VC partnership in history.
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