Written by
Princeton Entrepreneurship Council, Wright Seneres, Princeton University
Oct. 13, 2022

Mark Esposito *17, who earned his Ph.D. and was also a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Yibin Kang, Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology, has been named a 2022 Tiger Entrepreneur Award winner. Esposito is co-founder and vice president of Kayothera, a startup spinout from the lab of Yibin Kang developing small molecule immunotherapies to treat solid cancers. Kang and Esposito co-founded Kayothera in 2019 with seed funding from the New Jersey Health Foundation. See the link below for the full story...

(l-r) Princeton cancer researchers Yibin Kang, professor, and Mark Esposito, postdoctoral researcher(l-r) Princeton cancer researchers Yibin Kang, professor, and Mark Esposito, postdoctoral researcher, seen here in April 2019 in the Kang lab. Photo by Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications