Chris Parrish

Oxford Bioscience Partners is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1992 by Edmund Martin Olivier, Alan G. Walton and Cornelius T. Ryan. The firm is headquartered in Boston.

Ironwood Capital (Ironwood) is a private equity firm is founded in 1986. The firm has headquartered in Avon, Connecticut.

CoTherix, Inc. develops therapeutic products. Its ventavis product is a nebulizer delivered therapy for pulmonary artery hypertension, which restricts blood flow to the lungs. CoTherix markets its products in the US, Europe, and Australia. The company was founded in February, 2000 by Donald J. Santel and Gerard Turino and is located in Brisbane, CA.

Alnara Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and commercializes protein therapeutics for the treatment of metabolic diseases. It also develops liprotamase, a non-porcine pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) for the treatment of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI). The company was founded by Christoph H. Westphal, Richard H. Aldrich and Alexy L. Margolin in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Ginger.io, Inc. operates as a behavior analytics company using big data. It offers tailored technological platform for effective workflow integration. The firms continuous data collection approach detects symptom flares more precisely than regular clinic visits. The company was founded by Karan Singh, Anmol Madan and Alex Pentland in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Millendo Therapeutics US, Inc. engages in the development of novel treatment for adrenal cancer. It focuses on developing a portfolio of disease-modifying treatments for endocrine disorders caused by hormone dysregulation. The company was founded by Raili E. Kerppola, Julia C. Owens, and Gary D. Hammer in January 2012 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Semnur Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. The firm focuses on the clinical and commercial development of products such as SP-102: a non-opioid epidural steroid injectable potentially for the treatment of Lumbosacral radicular pain. The company was founded by Mahendra G. Shah in 2013 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Artemis Health, Inc. operates as an online platform for medical claims. Its services include health care analytics, security, savings, and data aggregation. The company was founded by Gordon Grant, Dallen Allred and Regehr Dallin in 2013 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cortec Group Management Services LLC (Cortec Group) is private equity firm founded in 1984 by Richard Scott Schafler. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

New Leaf Venture Partners LLC (New Leaf Ventures) is an independent Venture Capital firm founded by Jeani Delagardelle, Philippe Chambon, Vijay Lathi, Ron Hunt, James Niedel, and Kathy LaPorte. The firm is headquartered in New York. It spun out from Sprout Group.

Amunix, Inc. develops protein pharmaceuticals. It offers XTEN which is hydrophilic, unstructured, biodegradable polypeptides that impart a number of favorable properties upon the molecules to which they are attached. The company was founded by Volker Schellenberger and Willem Stemmer in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Athyrium Capital Management LP (Athyrium) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Jeffrey A. Ferrell in 2008 as Athyrium Capital Management LLC and converted from a Delaware limited liability company to a Delaware limited partnership in 2015. Athyrium provides advisory services on a discretionary basis to its clients, which may include specific tailored vehicles and pooled investment vehicles intended for sophisticated investors and institutional investors.

Sérum International, Inc. operates as online shoe store. It offers Birkenstock products as well as Tatami, Newalk, Papillio, Birki's, Birki kids, Birko, Birkenstock Comfort Shoes, FP by Birkenstock and Alpro lines. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Laval, Canada.

Rempex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops new therapies to combat the growing issue of antibiotic resistance. It focuses on the discovery and development of new antibacterial drugs to meet the clinical need created by multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens. The company was founded by Daniel Burgess, Michael Dudley and Jeffery Loutit in June 2011 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Acerta Pharma BV develops drugs for oncology and autoimmune diseases. It operates as a biotech company that combines technology platforms in drug discovery and development such as the covalent technology platform and the multiparametric phosphoflow cytometry platform. The company was founded by Allard Kaptein in 2012 and is headquartered in Oss, Netherlands.

Entasis Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which focuses on the discovey, development, and commercialization of novel antibacterial prodcuts to treat serious infections caused by multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Its pipeline includes ETX2514SUL, targeting Acinetobacter baumannii infections; ETX0282CPDP, targeting Enterobacteriaceae infections; a Non-Beta-lactam PBP inhibitor, targeting Gram-negative infections; and zoliflodacin, targeting Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The company was founded by Manoussos Perros in May 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Qventus, Inc. provides software solutions for healthcare administration. Its solutions include forecasting and optimization, statistical monitoring and visualizations and root cause analysis. The company was founded by Mudit Garg, Ian Christopher and Brent Newhouse in 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Recover Together, Inc. engages in provision of treatment to recover from opiate use. It specializes in opiate addiction treatment, Suboxone buprenorphine, and group therapy. The company was founded by Jeff De Flavio, Joy Sun and Silas Howland in 2015 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

Mavupharma, Inc. engages development of non-nucleotide, conditional modulators of the STING pathway to treat cancer and infectious disease. The company was founded by W. Michael Gallatin, Brian K. Farmer, and Robert F. Baltera, Jr. and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.

Amunix Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures and fabricates drugs. The firm’s pipeline products are based on proprietary XTEN half-life extension, Antibody-XTEN-Drug Conjugate, ProTIA pro-drug and bispecific T-cell engager platform technologies. The company was founded by Willem P.C. Stemmer and Volker Schellenberger in 2006 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Aspen Health, Inc. provides clinical pharmacy services. The company was founded by David Medvedeff and is headquartered in Lake Mary, FL.

Part of Seraxis Pte Ltd., Seraxis, Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in developing a proprietary human stem cell line, sr1423, and manufacturing process to generate pancreatic islets that mimic native islets in purity and potency. The company is based in Germantown, MD. The company has also developed the seragraft device and other tools to enable survival and function of the islet replacement therapy in immunocompetent hosts. Seraxis aims to be the first to provide diabetics a clinical solution for glucose control and complete autonomy from insulin injections. The company was founded in 2013 by William L. Rust, who has been the CEO since 2013.

Lassen Therapeutics LLC operates as a therapeutic antibody company. It discovers and develops novel medicines to treat serious unmet medical needs. The company is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Seraxis Holdings, Inc. functions as an investment holding private company. The company is based in Germantown, MD. The CEO of the company is William L Rust.

Enlaza Therapeutics, Inc. is a company that develops novel classes of protein therapeutics using their proprietary war-lock™ platform. The company is based in La Jolla, CA. The company's platform utilizes synthetic biology technology for site-specific covalent coupling driven by drug binding. Enlaza Therapeutics is pioneering the field of covalent biologics and is building a pipeline of first-in-class covalent biologics. The CEO of the company is Sergio G. Duron.

Sudo Biosciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on designing and developing innovative medicines to improve the lives of patients. Sudo Biosciences is based in Menlo Park, CA, and has operations in other locations. The company's primary focus is on developing treatments that target the tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) pseudokinase domain, which is a crucial mediator in cytokine signaling pathways that have been associated with various immune-mediated inflammatory conditions. The CEO of the company is Scott A. Byrd.

Merganser Biotech, Inc. engages in the development of of hepcidin mimetic peptides as new medicines for the treatment of hematological and iron overload diseases. The company was founded by Brian R. MacDonald and Gene Merutka in 2011 and is headquartered in Newtown Square, PA.