RenBio was founded on the principle that the remarkable medical benefits of antibody therapeutics should be available to everyone, and was named one of DARPA’s “Biotech Startups of the Future” one year after opening its operations. The company was co-founded by David D. Ho, MD (Time magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1996 and recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal) and Yaoxing Huang, PhD, visionary scientists affiliated with the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and Professors at Columbia University Medical Center. RenBio is backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, DARPA, and a syndicate of private investors, and is headquartered at the Alexandria Center® for Life Science in New York City.