Primary Job Title Founder and CSO Primary Organization 
Tunitas Therapeutics
Location Los Angeles, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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A founder and CSO of Tunitas, Dr. Saxon is Professor and former Chief of Clinical Immunology and Allergy at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Saxon is a world-renowned expert in the cellular and molecular biology of human allergic disease. In addition to the developing the platforms Tunitas has licensed, Dr. Saxon and his collaborators have made
seminal discoveries on the mechanisms that control human allergic antibody (IgE) production and the role of environmental factors in development of the allergic response. Dr. Saxon served as the chairman of the Allergy and Asthma Section of the Immune Tolerance Network for more than a decade and has served in a wide range of capacities for peer reviewed funding organizations across the globe. Andy graduated from Dartmouth College and received his MD degree from Harvard University. Following an internship in internal medicine at UCLA Harbor General Hospital and postdoctoral training in Microbiology/Immunology, he founded the Division of Clinical Immunology/Allergy in the Department of Medicine at UCLA, where he served as Chief of the Division for nearly 30 years.
