Alexa Pharmaceuticals focused on non-invasive, rapid drug delivery via inhalation of small molecules.

“so um i was fortunate the opportunity to work with one of the great early biotech entrepreneurs alex zaferoni and so he and i started a company when i was straight out of medical school that was focused on fast drug delivery so what could you do by being able to deliver medications non-invasively on the time scale of giving an iv push in the hospital and so we did that through inhalation of small molecules kind of building on the concept obviously that if you smoke something like a cigarette you get incredibly rapid access to the systemic circulation”