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Francisco Leon

Francisco Leon

Director at Lapix Therapeutics. Also a founder and CEO, director at Tolerance Bio and a director at Paulex Bio.

ExecutiveDirectorRoles at 3 startups
Updated Nov 10, 2026·Latest SEC filing Jun 18, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Francisco Leon

Francisco Leon is a director at Lapix Therapeutics.

Form D filings also name Francisco Leon as a founder and CEO, director at Tolerance Bio and a director at Paulex Bio.

Experience

This experience comes from Francisco Leon's profile and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Francisco Leon in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

IE University Current
Adjunct Professor
2026 – Present
Lapix Therapeutics Inc. Current
Director
2024 – Present · Cambridge, MA
Praetorian Bio Current
Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board
2024 – Present
Avalor Therapeutics Current
Co-Founder, Board Director
2024 – Present
Tolerance Bio Inc. Current
Founder and CEO, director
Founder, CEO, Chairman (2023 – Present)
2023 – Present · Philadelphia, PA
Develops thymus-based therapies for people with immune-mediated diseases.
Paulex Bio Inc. Current
Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board
2023 – Present · LA Jolla, CA
VAXDYN SL Current
Founding Partner, Board Director
2020 – Present
PharmImmune Current
Founder, President
2010 – Present
Glutenostics [operations transferred to Biomedal in 2025]
Co-Founder, Partner
2016 – 2025
Sanofi
Chief Scientific Officer, Provention Bio - a Sanofi Company
2023 – 2024
Provention Bio [acquired by Sanofi in 2023]
Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer
2016 – 2023
Jefferson Medical College, Dept. of Gastroenterology
Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Medicine
2011 – 2020
Celimmune [acquired by Amgen in 2017]
Co-Founder, CEO, Chief Medical Officer
2015 – 2018
Johnson & Johnson
Vice President & Head, Immunology Translational Medicine
2010 – 2015
Alba Therapeutics [assets acquired by Cephalon/TEVA]
Vice President & Chief Medical Officer
2007 – 2010
MedImmune
Director, Clinical Development, Inflammation & Respiratory
2006 – 2007
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Director, Clinical Discovery, Immunology & Oncology
2004 – 2006
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Research Fellow, Lab. of Clinical Investigation, Lab. of Molecular Immunology, NIAID
2002 – 2004

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Francisco Leon works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Tolerance Bio Inc. · Form D, Jun 18, 2026
Philip Ball
Philip Ball
SVP, Head of Business Development and Operations, director
DC
Justin Vogel
Justin Vogel
Chief Financial Officer and director
PC
Pablo Cironi
Director
Paulex Bio Inc. · Form D, Dec 18, 2025
ER
Edgardo Rayo
Director
MH
SM
Sanjuan Miguel
Chief Executive Officer and director
Lapix Therapeutics Inc. · Form D, Aug 5, 2025
AF
Anas Fathallah
President and Secretary, director
AG
JN
Jason Norris
Vice President and Treasurer, director
HM

Sources

  1. SECTolerance Bio Inc. Form D, filed Jun 18, 2026
  2. SECPaulex Bio Inc. Form D, filed Dec 18, 2025
  3. SECLapix Therapeutics Inc. Form D, filed Aug 5, 2025