Anna Schwendeman

Schering Plough Corp. manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, consumer and animal health care products. The firm discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies. The company is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ.

Elicio Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of vaccines for infectious disease and cancer. Its programs focus on a novel lipid nanocapsule platform technology for delivering vaccines in a form mimicking the structure of pathogens to elicit potent immunity in prophylactic and therapeutic settings. The company was founded by Satish Jindal and Darrell Irvine on August 10, 2011 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. manufactures and supplies pharmaceutical products. It markets therapies in hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, thrombosis, stroke risk reduction, acute coronary syndrome, opioid-induced constipation, IV iron therapy and metastatic melanoma. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Basking Ridge, NJ.

AlphaCore Pharma LLC engages in pharmaceutical research. It develops recombinant human lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase enzyme that helps reducing cholesterol from the body. The company was founded by Reyn Homan, Bruce J. Auerbach, and Brian R. Krausen on June 20, 2007 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Exicure Operating Co. operates as a biopharmaceutical company commercializing spherical nucleic acid constructs as gene regulation and modulation agents for diseases including applications in oncology, dermatology, neurology, and for immune disorders. The SNA constructs allow the use of oligonucleotide-based therapies to treat diseases in a range of tissue types. The company was founded by Chad A. Mirkin and Colby Shad Thaxton in 2011 and is headquartered in Skokie, IL.