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Douglas Treco is the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Ra Pharmaceuticals, a public biotechnology company developing treatments for complement-mediated disorders, which he founded in 2008. He received a PhD degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from SUNY at Stony Brook and performed post-doctoral studies at the Salk Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1988 Dr. Treco co-founded Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. (TKT, acquired in 2005 by Shire plc), a multi-platform biopharmaceutical company developing protein and gene therapy products. As Senior Vice President of Research and Development, he established and directed TKTā€™s gene activation and protein production efforts, which led to the approval of the biopharmaceutical products Dynepoā„¢, ReplagalĀ®, ElapraseĀ®, and Vprivā„¢. From 2004 to 2008, Dr. Treco was a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Molecular Biology at MGH and a Lecturer in Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and from 2008 to 2014, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence with Morgenthaler Ventures. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and holds over 40 US and European patents in the areas of protein and peptide production, gene mapping, and gene therapy.