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The magic of Kendall Sq! Seth Ettenberg is joining Kano Therapeutics Board of directors. “Kano has developed a transformative technology and is ready to commercialize its circular ssDNA gene templates. I'm thrilled to support the team to scale their partnership portfolio and enable genomic medicines.” Seth Ettenberg, PhD, is the President and CEO at BlueRock Therapeutics. Seth joined BlueRock as CSO in 2020 and led the rapid expansion and advancement of BlueRock’s pipeline. Prior to joining BlueRock, Seth was a founding member of Unum Therapeutics where he served as CSO. At Unum Seth built and led the strategy team that supported strategic partnerships, four first in class clinical trials, several rounds of fundraising, and a successful NASDAQ IPO listing. Previously Seth led the Cambridge site of Novartis’ Oncology Biotherapeutics group where he was responsible for developing and leading the strategy and implementation for oncology drug development projects at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research (NIBR). In addition, Seth was responsible for building and leading the Novartis Cell and Gene Therapy research team in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania to develop chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapeutics. Seth received his formal scientific training at the Genetics Branch of the National Cancer Institute. As a LabCentral alumni, Seth knows what it means to start a company from scratch. He is joining Kano’s board as the first Independent board director and will work alongside Vinny Beranek and Ann DeWitt from Engine Ventures and Lise Rechsteiner, PhD Rechsteiner from Vsquared Ventures.