Adolfo García-Sastre

Vivaldi Biosciences Inc. develops and markets vaccines. It specializes in developing live attenuated influenza vaccines (LAIVs). The company was founded by Eliott Kieff, Peter Palese, and Adolfo García-Sastre in 2006 and is headquartered in Fort Collins, CO.

CastleVax, Inc. is an American vaccine platform company based on technology developed at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, headquartered in an undisclosed location. The private company's platform uses a disease virus to induce the human immune system to produce neutralizing antibodies targeted at a range of emerging and pandemic viruses, including SARS-CoV-2. The technology was developed in response to the growing need for vaccine independence and pandemic response preparedness. CastleVax's leading candidate, NDV-HXP-S, is currently being tested in clinical trials in multiple countries around the world. The company was founded by Florian Krammer, Peter Palese, Adolfo García-Sastre.