Avak Kahvejian

2026 MIT Technology Review’s EmTech: Avak Kahvejian on AI x Biology

October 14, 2026 · 📺 Flagship Pioneering

Video: MIT Technology Review EmTech Event Flagship General Partner and President of Flagship Labs Avak Kahvejian gives a talk on how AI is accelerating discovery across the life sciences at EmTech Future 2026, MIT Technology Review’s flagship event at the frontiers of technology. About Flagship Pioneering: Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures. The cur…

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Welcome to The Labs Report: Meet Our Hosts

June 11, 2026 · 📺 Flagship Pioneering

Hosted by Avak Kahvejian and Justine Levin-Allerhand , The Labs Report podcast brings listeners into the stories behind the numbers: the unexpected results, the moments of doubt, and the possibilities emerging from the lab. The first episode explores how Avak and Justine came to this work, what Flagship Labs is, and why pioneering new scientific fields requires an entirely different approach to invention and uncertainty.

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Flagship Studio at JPM26: Nobel Prize-Winning Science

January 13, 2026 · 📺 Flagship Pioneering

Avak Kahvejian, Nobel laureate Fred Ramsdell, and Roli Khattri of Flagship-founded Expedition Medicines discuss the immune system discoveries that reshaped modern medicine and continue to drive today’s most active areas of drug development. The conversation explores how foundational science becomes transformative new therapies. About Flagship Pioneering: Flagship Pioneering is a biotechnology company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fost…

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Avak Kahvejian (Flagship Pioneering) at the Argentine Investment Forum 2025

December 16, 2025 · 📺 ARCAP

From the laboratory to the market: how to drive disruptive startups in biotechnology Fireside Chat Avak Kahvejian (Flagship Pioneering) Moderator: Matias Peire (ARCAP – GRIDX) Argentine Investment Forum 2025

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Avak Kahvejian of Flagship Pioneering at HLTH USA 2025

November 21, 2025 · 📺 New York Stock Exchange

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Mobilizing the U.S. Biotechnology Private Sector

April 10, 2025 · 📺 Special Competitive Studies Project

A conversation with Rep. Ro Khanna, Commissioner, NSCEB, and Avak Kahvejian, General Partner, Flagship Pioneering.

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2024 Convocation: Keynote Address by Avak Kahvejian, PhD - General Partner, Flagship Pioneering

September 12, 2024 · 📺 UMass Boston

2024 Convocation September 12, 2024 Keynote Address by: Avak Kahvejian, PhD General Partner, Flagship Pioneering

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Building Flagship Pioneering With Avak Kahvejian, Ph.D.

May 01, 2023 · 📺 Life Science Connect

Flagship Pioneering is fertile ground for a bevy of blossoming biotechs, and one of its most prolific sowers is General Partner Avak Kahvejian, Ph.D. Dr. Kahvejian counts Seres Therapeutics, Rubius Therapeutics, Codiak BioSciences, Cygnal Therapeutics, Ring Therapeutics, Cellarity, Laronde, and Generate Biomedicines among the companies he's played a leading hand in launching. On this episode of the Business of Biotech, Kahvejian takes us under the hood of one of the most burgeoning businesses in biotech, sharing details on the people, processes, and technologies fueling its rapid growth. #bus…

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Three Questions with Avak Kahvejian, General Partner at Flagship Pioneering

June 22, 2022 · 📺 Flagship Pioneering

About Flagship Pioneering: Flagship Pioneering conceives, creates, resources, and develops first-in-category bioplatform companies to transform human health and sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, the firm has, through its Flagship Labs unit, applied its unique hypothesis-driven innovation process to originate and foster more than 100 scientific ventures. The current Flagship ecosystem comprises 42 transformative companies, including Axcella Health (NASDAQ: AXLA), Codiak BioSciences (NASDAQ: CDAK) Denali Therapeutics (NASDAQ: DNLI), Evelo Biosciences (NASDAQ: EVLO), Foghorn Therapeutics…

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Avak Kahvejian: 2022 Immigrant Entrepreneur Life Science Business Awardee

March 09, 2022 · 📺 The Immigrant Learning Center

The Immigrant Learning Center awarded Avak Kahvejian the 2022 Barry M. Portnoy Immigrant Entrepreneur Award in the Life Science Business category. Kahvejian has founded many biotechnology companies and, as a partner at Flagship Pioneering, contributed to the founding of many more. He is also very active in supporting Armenian and immigrant communities. This video profile of Avak features comments from Founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering Noubar Afeyan, CEO-Partner at Flagship Pioneering and CEO of Laronde Diego Miralles, President and CEO of the International Institute of New England Jeffrey…

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