Jordyn Tarazi

Bayer Corp. manufactures and markets pharmaceutical, healthcare, nutrition and materials products. The firm offers consumer care, diagnostics, diabetes and animal health products. It also provides material science products, which include coating, adhesive and sealant raw materials polycarbonates polyurethanes and thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers. The company was founded in 1973 and is based in Whippany, NJ.

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.

Vivo Capital LLC (Vivo Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Frank C. Kung and Edgar G. Engleman. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Aerogen, Inc. develops and manufactures aerosol products for treatment of respiratory disorders in the critical care setting. Its products include Aerogen Solo, Aerogen Ultra, Aerogen Pro, Pro-C controller, and USB controller. The company is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

Cure DM, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. It develops new therapies that may prevent, ameliorate or reverse diabetes and allow for the discontinuation of insulin. The company was founded by Loraine V. Upham, Claresa S. Levetan and Rita El-Hajj in 2004 and is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

UCSF Medical Center owns and operates hospitals. It operates hospitals in San Francisco as well as satellite facilities. It provides health care facilities to children, organ transplants, cardiac care, fertility treatments, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, and orthopedics. It also provides outpatient care and some programs in areas as women's health, aging, cancer, and pain management. UCSF Medical Center is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Latham & Watkins LLP operates as a full-service law firm or legal matters. It offers services in the areas of finance, litigation, accounting, banking, life sciences, private equity, real estate, government relations, employment law, and outsourcing. The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

American Society on Aging operates as a western gerontological society. It offers solutions for people who are concerned with the physical, emotional, social, economic and spiritual aspects of aging. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Profil Institute for Clinical Research, Inc. operates as a full-service clinical research organization (CRO), that focuses on diabetes, obesity and NAFLD/NASH. It offers clinical development, regulatory affair, clinical research, scientific, data management and statistical, monitoring, quality and compliance, and recruitment services. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Chula Vista, CA.

Part of Merck & Co., Inc., Merck Research Laboratories Massachusetts LLC is a pharmaceutical company that provides free medicines and adult vaccines to qualified patients through their Merck Patient Assistance Program. The company is based in Boston, MA and is a part of Merck & Co., Inc. and its affiliates. The company also offers information about insurance coverage and financial assistance options for eligible patients. The company conducts clinical trials and provides medical information covering thousands of topics in all fields of medicine through their Merck Manuals. Additionally, they report on their commitment to operating responsibly to benefit society through their corporate responsibility program, which includes their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) report. Merck for Mothers is an initiative to create a world where no woman has to die giving life.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society operates as an organization for liberal arts and science education. The non-profit company is based in Washington.

The Order of the Coif provides legal educational services. The non-profit company is based in Chapel Hill, NC.

MacuLogix, Inc. engages in the early detection and tracking of retinal diseases. Its AdaptDx is the first practical measurement tool for dark adaptation which provides doctors with an easy-to-use functional test similar to routine perimetry testing for glaucoma. The company also provides macular degeneration services. The company was founded by John G. Edwards and Gregory R. Jackson in 2004 and is headquartered in Harrisburg, PA.

Second Genome, Inc. develops microbiome-based therapeutic products. It offers phyclochip community, 16S sequencing community analysis, whole metagenomic profiling, nucleic acid isolation, inferred function and custom informatics services. The company was founded in 2009 by Corey S. Goodman, Janet A. Warrington, Todd Z. DeSantis, John Hulls and Gary Andersen and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Medpharmgene, Inc. provides commercial physical research services. The private company is based in Montréal, Canada and was founded in 2001.

Anokion SA provides technology for retraining white blood cells to induce therapeutic immune tolerance. The firm?s approach to antigen-specific immune tolerance can be translated to virtually any protein in numerous clinical indications. The company was founded by Jerffery Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Stephan Kontos, Oscar Buset, Kristen M. Lorentz and David A. Lowin and is headquartered in Ecublens, Switzerland.

Unchained Labs designs, develops, and manufactures tools and devices for biologics research. It sells its products to biopharma and academic customers. The company was founded by Timothy A. Harkness in January 2015 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Kanyos Bio, Inc. engages in the provision of immune tolerance technology solutions. It develops antigen-specific for treatment of type-1 diabetes and celiac disease. The company was founded by Jeffrey Hubbell, Stephan Kontos, Oscar Buset, Kristen M. Lorentz, and David A. Lowin in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Continuum Biosciences, Inc. operates as a biotech company that focuses on diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and ageing. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Blacksburg, VA.

Sevident, Inc. engages in the research of molecular diagnostics. The private company is based in Hayward.

Harmony Biosciences LLC operates as a biopharmaceutical company which develops therapies to help patients with unmet medical needs. It provides novel treatment options to patients with orphan and rare conditions, with an emphasis on central nervous system disorders. The company is headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, PA.

ProSciento, Inc. is a full-service clinical research organization that works with biopharma companies worldwide to support their outsourced clinical research needs. The company is based in Chula Vista, CA, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company specializes in providing comprehensive and customized services for multinational, early development clinical trial programs for metabolic continuum diseases, including diabetes, obesity, and steatotic liver disease. ProSciento has conducted over 300 clinical projects and supported the development of many approved metabolic drugs and devices on the market. ProSciento was founded in 2003, and Marcus Hompesch has been the CEO of the company since its inception.