Brian K. Kay

President, Co-Founder

Brian Kay is a co-founder and President of Tango Biosciences, Inc. During his tenure at University North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Wisconsin – Madison, and University of Illinois Chicago, his academic research group pioneered phage display libraries of combinatorial peptides, antibody fragments, and engineered proteins to probe surfaces of proteins and identify contact sites for binding assays. He has authored over 130 scientific reports, co-edited three books, and been issued 15 patents.

Brian brings world-leading experience in phage display, library construction, screening combinatorial peptide libraries, generating recombinant antibodies and proteins with high affinity and selectivity, technical trouble-shooting, and research leadership to Tango Biosciences.

He holds a B.A. degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. degree from Yale University.