Professor Noelle is a co-founder of Io Therapeutics. He is an internationally renowned leader in autoimmune diseases research. He holds joint academic appointments as Professor of Immunology and Microbiology at Dartmouth and Professor of Transplant Science and Immunotherapy at King’s College, London. In addition to his numerous accomplishments in academia, Professor Noelle has also demonstrated entrepreneurial translation of his research into clinical applications. He is a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of ImmuRx, Inc., which is developing treatments for cancer and chronic infectious diseases utilizing his discoveries in the CD40 ligand area. Professor Noelle was recently awarded a $7 M Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellowship Award (the most prestigious of the Wellcome Trust’s personal awards) to study the role of retinoids in autoimmune disease.