Steven F. Dowdy

Traversa Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of RNAi Delivery Technologies. The Company strives to rapidly advance short interfering RNA (siRNA) platform delivery technologies for use by RNAi therapeutic companies in targeting a wide variety of acute, chronic and infectious human diseases. Traversa is focused on the optimization of this platform delivery technology, as well as advancement of its own therapeutic programs for the treatment of Leukemia and Glioblastoma. The Company was founded in La Jolla, California in mid-2006, and has secured worldwide exclusive licenses to intellectual property developed during the past five years by Steven F. Dowdy, Ph.D., and his research group at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of California San Diego relating to siRNA delivery technology and induction of RNA Interference (RNAi).

Solstice Biologics LLC develops nucleic acid therapeutics. It specializes in the development of small, cell-permeable RNAi pro-drugs. The company was founded by Steven Dowdy and Curt W. Bradshaw in 2012 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.