Howard T. Holden

Alta Partners Management Co. LP (Alta Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Jean Deleage, Guy Paul Nohra, Marino Polestra and Garrett P. Gruener. The firm is headquartered in Jackson, Wyoming.

Roche Innovation Center Copenhagen A/S discovers and develops drugs for the treatment of oncology, metabolic diseases, and infectious diseases. The firm manufactures a pipeline of drug candidates that act selectively on disease-related ribonucleic acid to provide patients with novel treatments for both rare and common diseases. It produces pre-clinical and clinical assets for the treatment of a range of diseases including oncology, metabolic diseases, and infectious diseases. The company was founded by Matts Lundwall and Mikael Ørum on January 1, 1998 and is headquartered in Horsholm, Denmark.

TopoTarget UK Ltd. engages in the discovery and development of drugs and therapies to treat cancer. It develops anti-cancer drugs for molecular mechanisms associated with the cell cycle, chromatin control and DNA damage. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

AOT AG develops and manufactures robotic surgery equipment. Its technologies include laser photoablation, navigation, planning, and image tools, and real time controlling systems. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

MTIP AG (MTIP) is an independent private equity/venture capital firm founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center operates as a private cancer center. It offers cancer care services to adult; and child and teen patients. Its services include risk assessment and screening; diagnosis and treatment; clinical trials; patient and caregiver education; and pediatric clinical trials. The company was founded by John J. Astor and Charlotte Astor in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

credentis ag designs, develops, manufactures, and markets dental devices. The firm offers CURODONT. The company was founded by Dominik A. Lysek in January 2010 and is headquartered in Windisch, Switzerland.

Peripal AG engages in the development and commercialization of aid for the dialysis. It offers PeriSafe a novel patient assist device for the safe and easy connection in Peritoneal Dialysis. The company was founded by Sandra Neumann in 2015 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

BC Platforms AG provides powerful genomic data management and analysis solutions. It offers pharmaceutical, biobank, healthcare and academia products. The company was founded by Timo Kanninen in 1997 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical instruments, and diagnostics solutions. The company was founded by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche on October 1, 1896 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Bio-Bac, Inc. specializes in biological treatment of organic waste through a bacterial bioaugmentation process. Its solutions include wastewater treatment, nitrification – ammonia degradation, ponds and water gardens, golf, hydrocarbons, household and commercial and agricultural treatment. The company is headquartered in Sherbrooke, Canada.

National Cancer Institute provides healthcare services. It specializes in different cancer treatment such as adrenocortical carcinoma, anal cancer, appendix cancer, skin cancer, breast cancer, cardiac tumors, endometrial cancer, and gallbladder cancer. The company was founded in March 1937 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

The Keck School of Medicine of USC is a place of dynamic activity in patient care, scientific discovery, medical and bioscience education, and community service. Their faculty, staff, students, residents, alumni, donors and friends are committed to excellence. Together they are poised to lead medicine in the 21st Century for the benefit of humankind. This is an exciting time of great transformation as they endeavor to create a truly stellar academic medical center at USC.

Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops pharmaceutical products. Its products include Aptiom (eslicarbazepine acetate) tablets, Latuda (lurasidone HCl) tablets, Lunesta (eszopiclone) tablets, Xopenex (levalbuterol HCl) Inhalation Solution, Xopenex HFA (levalbuterol tartrate) Inhalation Aerosol, Brovana (arformoterol tartrate) Inhalation Solution, Omnaris (ciclesonide) Nasal Spray, Alvesco (ciclesonide) Inhalation Aerosol, and Zetonna (ciclesonide) Nasal Aerosol. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

National Institutes Of Health conducts & supports peer-reviewed medical research and science. The firm's scientists & researchers investigate on different ways to prevent diseases as well as the causes, treatments and cures for common and rare diseases. The company was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Novo Holding A/S provides financial investments and manages the Novo Nordisk Foundation?s assets. It offers seed and venture capital to development stage companies and takes ownership positions in companies within life science and biotechnology. The company was founded on September 8, 1999 and is headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark.

Warren Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops tissue-protective technologies. The company was founded by Anthony Cerami and Michael Brines on May 17, 2001 and is headquartered in Tarrytown, NY.

StartAngels Network operates as a platform for business angel investors. Its angle investors invest directly in the start-up companies, coach them, and provide useful contacts. The company was founded by Peter H. Müller in 2000 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Plexxikon, Inc. provides clinical and medical drug discovery and development services. The company was founded by Joseph P. Schlessinger, Thomas Richard Kassberg, Sung-hou Kim and K. Peter Hirth in 2001 and is headquartered in Berkeley, CA.

Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies for the treatment of chronic diseases. Its lead product candidate, ITCA 650, is currently in development for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The firm’s platform technology is a proprietary subcutaneous delivery system that involves a matchstick-size, miniature osmotic pump implanted sub-dermally to provide continuous and consistent drug therapy, and the company’s proprietary formulation technology, which maintains stability of therapeutic proteins and peptides at human body temperatures for long extended periods of time. The company was founded by Mark Moran in June 1995 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

7TM A/S performs research and development within biotechnology. It engages in clinical development of drugs focusing on obesity and gastrointestinal diseases. The company was founded by Thue Walter Schwartz, Anders Fink Vadsholt, Mette Kirstine Agger, Christian Ellebæk Elling, and Peter Moldt on January 1, 2000 and is headquartered in Hørsholm, Denmark.

Genedata AG transforms data into intelligence with a portfolio of advanced software solutions. Its products include biologics, screener, expressionist, profiler, analyst, phylosospher, selector, imagence and bioprocess. The firm offers data analysis, information technology, training, software, development and hosting services to pharmaceutical, agrochemical, Industrial biotechnology companies and non-profit research organizations. The company was founded by Othmar Pfannes in 1997 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

U3 Pharma AG researches and develops novel targeted therapeutics aimed at treating human disease. It develops products for hyperproliferative diseases such as cancer and commercializes human monoclonal antibody therapies directed against validated proprietary drug targets selected from its portfolio. In addition, it has created a second generation functional genomics platform, TASC, which mimics the progression of a tumor cell as it progresses towards its fully malignant cancerous state. Founded in 2001, the company is headquartered in Martinsried, Germany.

PamGene BV provides biopharmaceutical products and clinical settings. It also provides PamChip biomarkers, such as tyrosine kinases, serine/threonine kinases, nuclear receptors, and reagent kits. The firm provides BioNavigator, a software tool for interpretation of PamChip measurements, as well as for performing data analysis for various PamChip experiments; and Evolve that enables data capture and analysis, as well as for the export of data into third party software formats. The company was founded by Tim Kievits in December 1999 and is headquartered in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.