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CastleVax, Inc. is an American vaccine platform company based on technology developed at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, headquartered in an undisclosed location. The private company's platform uses a disease virus to induce the human immune system to produce neutralizing antibodies targeted at a range of emerging and pandemic viruses, including SARS-CoV-2. The technology was developed in response to the growing need for vaccine independence and pandemic response preparedness. CastleVax's leading candidate, NDV-HXP-S, is currently being tested in clinical trials in multiple countries around the world. The company was founded by Florian Krammer, Peter Palese, Adolfo García-Sastre.

Accelerate Long Island/venture capital/ (Accelerate Long Island (Venture Capital)) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Accelerate Long Island, Inc founded in 2016. The firm is headquartered in Melville, New York.

The Mount Sinai Health System, Inc. provides health care system services. It is an integrated health care system providing exceptional medical care to our local and global communities. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Kantaro Biosciences LLC is a health system venture that provides high-quality diagnostic tests for critical health challenges. The joint venture company is based in New York, NY. The company is dedicated to advancing the care and well-being of people, communities, and society by offering rigorous, results-driven, and reproducible diagnostics. Kantaro specializes in the rapid scale-up of groundbreaking diagnostic innovations and the creation of partnerships to bring these crucial technologies to market.

Mount Sinai Innovation Partners is a private company that focuses on translating discoveries and inventions into healthcare products and services that benefit patients and society. The company is based in New York, NY. The company is responsible for evaluating, patenting, marketing, and licensing new technologies, building research collaborations and partnerships with commercial and nonprofit entities, coaching innovators to advance commercially relevant translational discoveries, and fostering an ecosystem of entrepreneurship within the Mount Sinai research and health system communities.