 While at Aventis, Douglas collaborated with Nature Publishing Co. to create the Horizon Symposia.Douglas is president and CEO of THEVAX Genetics Vaccine USA and is president emeritus of Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron, Ohio and senior partner emeritus of Puretech Ventures.He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Battelle Memorial Research Institute, and had been a member of the Board of Trustees at Lehigh University and of the Board of Directors at the Kauffman Foundation, NitroMed, Gene Logic, and Altanos Pharmaceuticals Holding.