Joseph Lyons

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

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.

Palleon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as biotechnology company. The firm discovers and develops immuno-oncology drugs, medicines, and therapies for the treatment of cancer diseases. It specializes in clinical development, and glyco-immune checkpoint inhibitors. The company was founded by Jim Broderick, Carolyn Bertozzi and Paul Crocker in 2015 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

National Society to Prevent Blindness operates as an eye health and safety organization. It offers services for amblyopia, AMD, cataract, central retinal vein occlusion, colour blindness, conjunctivitis, diabetic eye disease and macular enema, dry eye, floaters, glaucoma, refractive eye, retinal tears and detachments, retinitis pigments and strabismus. The company was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Sustained Nano Systems LLC is a company that develops products for post-cataract surgery treatment. The company is based in Westhampton Beach, NY and was founded by Barry M. Libin, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company's products include dex-sa, which delivers dexamethasone to the subconjunctival space to treat postoperative inflammation and pain, and lat-la, a single extraocular injectable administration of a six-month release prostaglandin analog for glaucoma treatment. The company also develops SNS ret-la, which prevents blood vessel growth for over a year in a standard rabbit model of corneal angiogenesis.

Amgen Canada, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

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.

Oncternal Oncology, Inc. is a clinical-stage oncology company, which engages in the development of novel therapies for both rare and common cancers. The company was founded by Lauren Otsuki and Cam L. Garner and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Presage Biosciences, Inc. engages in development of novel drugs for treatment of cancers. It offers CIVO arrayed microinjection platform that allows for simultaneous assessment of multiple drugs or drug combinations directly in a single solid tumor while still in a patient’s body to assess efficacy, resistance, and drug synergies in the tumor’s native microenvironment. The company was founded by James M. Olson and Thane Kreiner in 2008 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Solve Therapeutics, Inc. is an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company that develops novel antibody-based therapies targeting tumor-specific antigens. The company is based in Belmont, CA, and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company's formation has reunited members of the former VelosBio Inc. team, a highly experienced group with a proven ability to rapidly advance innovative therapeutics that address unmet medical needs in the treatment of cancer. Solvetx has been actively pursuing discovery and development efforts at its state-of-the-art laboratory facilities. The company has licensed or generated targeting antibodies and nanobodies with ideal characteristics to serve as the backbones for antibody-based therapeutics and has rights to technology supporting the development of diagnostic and therapeutic antibody-radionuclide conjugates (ARCs). Solvetx is supported by a syndicate of sophisticated healthcare investors, including Ayurmaya Capital Management Fund (an affiliate of Matrix Capital Management), Decheng Capital, General, and Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company). The company was founded by David M. Johnson and has been led by him as the CEO since incorporation.

Napp Pharmaceutical Holdings Ltd. develops and provides medicines to patients. It offers prescription products for respiratory diseases such as asthma, inflammatory conditions, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis, as well as pain management, blood cancers, and cardiovascular conditions. The company was founded on December 19, 1997 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Index Ventures SA (Index Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1996 by Neil Alexander Rimer, Gluseppe Zocco and Gerald Rimer. The firm is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Medicxi Ventures (Jersey) Ltd. (Medicxi) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Francesco de Rubertis, Michèle Ollier, and Kevin S. Johnson. The firm is headquartered in London.

Gadeta BV discovers and develops novel cancer immunotherapies. It provides groundbreaking discoveries regarding the role of cell receptors in the broad of heamatological and solid tumor cells. The firm develops t-cells engineered to express a defined gamma delta, an anti- cancer product that eradicates tumors. The company was founded by Jurgen Kuball in 2015 and is headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Janpix Holdings, Inc. engages in provision of research and experimental development on biotechnology. The company was founded by Patrick T. Gunning and Cortes Pierre and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Vaderis Therapeutics AG is a clinical stage biotech company based in Basel, Switzerland. The Swiss company aims to develop medicinal treatments for rare and orphan diseases associated with vascular malformations. The company focuses on developing a medicine for the treatment of HHT and other diseases associated with vascular malformations. HHT is a rare disease that causes vascular overgrowth due to genetic mutations, and there are no drugs approved anywhere in the world that specifically treat it. The company was founded in 2019 by Nicholas Benedict, Pierre Saint-Mezard, and Damien Picard, and Nicholas Benedict has been the CEO since incorporation. Vaderis raised a series a financing from Medicxi and acquired a portfolio of allosteric Akt inhibitors from Almac Discovery Ltd.

Fore Biotherapeutics, Inc. develops tumor specific driver mutations. It offers fully automated live-cell screening from NGS data. The company was founded by Haim Gil-Ad and Yoram Altschuler in 2011 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Mundipharma International Ltd. develops and produces pharmaceutical products. It offers analgesics, oncology, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and cardiovascular drugs. The company was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Museum of Science operates as a museum. The company was founded in 1830 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Lengo Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a pharmaceutical company. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.