Armon Sharei, PhD

Armon Sharei is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Portal Bio, a cell engineering platform company. Previously he was the founder and CEO of SQZ Biotech (NYSE:$SQZ) where he led the company for 10 years - from founding to post-IPO and multiple clinical trial implementations. Dr. Sharei developed the Cell Squeeze® platform during his PhD work in chemical engineering at MIT. After his PhD, Dr. Sharei was a Ragon Institute postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School. He is co-author of over 20 peer-reviewed publications and inventor on over 20 patents.