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Imanis was founded in 2012 by Drs. Stephen Russell, Kah-Whye Peng and Michael O’Connor, Professors at Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN. Dr. Russell was recruited to Mayo Clinic from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 to be the Director of a brand new virus and gene therapy program at Mayo Clinic. As a clinician scientist, his dream was to develop replication competent viruses for cancer therapy. Together with Dr. Kah-Whye Peng, they built a new program and later department (Molecular Medicine) known internationally for bench to clinical translation of oncolytic virotherapies. Together with physicist Dr. Mike O’Connor, they also developed NIS reporter gene technology for enabling long term monitoring of virus, vector, and cell therapies in small and large animals and in humans.