CALCIMEDICA

CalciMedica was founded in December 2006 by Gonul Velicelebi, Ph.D., Kenneth Stauderman, Ph.D. and Jack Roos, Ph.D., all previously with TorreyPines Therapeutics, where they discovered the role of STIM1 in the Icrac pathway in 2003. Other co-founders, all from the CBR Institute, include Anjana Rao, Ph.D., Patrick Hogan, Ph.D. and Stefan Feske, M.D, who identified Orai1 as the CRAC channel subunit in 2006.