Bill Aliski

Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc. (TKT) was a biopharmaceutical company with a major focus on developing products for the treatment of rare diseases. The company is used to markets one product, Replagal™, for the treatment of Fabry disease in the European Union and other countries, and was developing products for Hunter syndrome and Gaucher disease. The company was located in Cambridge, MA.

Genzyme Corp. engages in development and manufacture of specialty therapeutic, surgical and diagnostic product. It serves in the areas of rare genetic diseases, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases and endocrinology. The company was founded on June 8, 1981 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. provides drug discovery and clinical development services. It develops and discovers products focusing on first-in-class, disease-modifying, small molecule therapeutics to treat diseases of protein misfolding. The company was founded by Jeffery W. Kelly and Susan L. Lindquist in 2003 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Scioderm, Inc. engages in the development of innovative therapies for areas of high unmet need, including orphan products. The company was founded by Robert Ryan and Robert John Coull in 2012 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Applied Genetic Technologies Corp. is a clinical stage biotechnology company, which engages in the usage of a gene therapy platform to develop transformational genetic therapies for patients suffering from rare and debilitating diseases. The firm also focuses on conducting clinical trials in the field of ophthalmology, optogenetics, adrenoleukodystrophy, and otology. The company was founded by Richard Jude Samulski, Nicholas Muzyczka, William W. Hauswirth, Terence R. Flotte, and Barry J. Byrne on January 19, 1999 and is headquartered in Alachua, FL.

Simon-Kucher & Partners GmbH provides strategy, marketing and pricing services. It offers consulting services in the areas of setting and managing prices, strategic development, product and market strategy, marketing leadership, and sales execution. The firm has offices in Amsterdam, Bonn, Boston, Brussels, Cologne, Frankfurt, London, Luxembourg, Barcelona, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo, Vienna, Warsaw, Beijing, Singapore, Sydney and Zurich. The company was founded by Hermann Simon, Eckhard Kucher and Karl-Heinz Sebastian in 1985 and is headquartered in Bonn, Germany.