Ali Munawar

Orthogon Therapeutics LLC is a privately held R&D firm that specializes in drug discovery and development. The company is based in Canton, MA. The company is headquartered in the biotech hub of Greater Boston and has a branch in Leuven. Orthogon uses an innovative structure-based and biophysics platform to design novel medicines. The company's portfolio of infectious disease assets includes antiviral therapeutics, with a lead program being a first-in-class, orally administrable small molecule inhibitor of BK virus replication. Orthogon has secured over $12.50m in investment to date and has additional discovery programs, including a treatment for antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. The company was founded by Ali Munawar, a veteran biotech entrepreneur, and experienced drug discovery scientists with a mission to prolong and improve patient quality of life.

Novira Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on the discovery and development of therapies for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection. The firm’s novel antiviral drug candidates addresses the limitations of CHB therapies. The company was founded in 2009 by Osvaldo Flores, Ali Munawar and George D. Hartman and is headquartered in Doylestown, PA.