Thomas P. Kennedy

Thomas P. Kennedy is a serial entrepreneur with over 40 years of experience in discovering and developing novel, mechanism-based cancer therapies. In addition to GlycoMira, Dr. Kennedy co-founded JSK Therapeutics and Cantex Pharmaceuticals (current CSO) that has advanced a low anticoagulant heparin mimetic, dociparastat sodium, to Phase 3 clinical evaluation for acute myeloid leukemia. Dr. Kennedy is a leading expert on sulfated glycosaminoglycan biology, currently practices critical care and pulmonary medicine, and advises several pharmaceutical companies and academic laboratories. During his career in academic medicine, he held faculty positions at the University of Utah, Wake Forest University, Tulane, Duke, and the University of North Carolina and became an inventor on over 30 issued patents.