Karen Brown

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

Schering Plough Corp. manufactures and sells pharmaceuticals, consumer and animal health care products. The firm discovers, develops, manufactures and markets advanced drug therapies. The company is headquartered in Kenilworth, NJ.

ARCH Venture Partners LLC is a Venture Capital firm founded in 1986. The firm is headquartered in Chicago with additional office in Dublin.

Biotechnology Innovation Organization is the world's biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,200 members worldwide. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology technologies. Corporate members range from entrepreneurial companies developing a first product to Fortune 100 multinationals. also represent state and regional biotech associations, service providers to the industry and academic centers.

Lombard Odier Asset Management (USA) Corp. (LOAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 and do-business-as Lombard Odier Investment Managers. The firm is a subsidiary of LO Holding SA and their ultimate parent is Switzerland-based Compagnie Lombard Odier SCmA. LOAM provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to private pooled investment vehicles (Funds) and investment advisory accounts. The investors in the Funds consist of endowments, foundations, insurance companies, high net-worth individuals, funds of funds, public and corporate pensions, and other sophisticated investors.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

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

Tufts Medical Center, Inc. owns and operates an academic medical center. It provides healthcare services and programs in the areas of allergy, anesthesiology, bariatric surgery, cancer, cardiology, colon and rectal, clinical nutrition, dentistry, dermatology, ENT/otolaryngology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, gastroenterology, general surgery, geriatrics, hematology/oncology, hyperbaric medicine, infectious diseases, maternity, nephrology, neurology, neurosurgery, and nutrition. The firm also offers services in the areas of obstetrics and gynecology, occupational therapy, ophthalmology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, pain management, palliative care, pathology, pediatrics, physical medicine, physical therapy, plastic surgery, psychiatry, pulmonary, radiation oncology, radiology, rheumatology, speech language pathology and audiology, thoracic and transplant surgery, trauma surgery, urology, vascular surgery, wound healing, and weight and wellness. The company was founded in 1796 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

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.

GV Management Co LLC (Google Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Google LLC founded in 2009 by Bill Maris. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in San Francisco, Boston, New York and London.

Allergan GI Corp. develops peptide therapeutics for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders. It provides RM-493 a small-peptide melanocortin-4 receptor agonist, for the treatment of obesity and diabetes, and RM-131 a small-peptide ghrelin agonist, for the treatment of diabetic gastro paresis and other gastrointestinal functional disorders. The company was founded by Bart Henderson and Elizabeth Stoner in 2008 and is headquartered in Madison, NJ.

Molecular Health, Inc. operates as a cloud-based healthcare decision support technology to enable evidence-based treatment decisions. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Excellentia Global Partners is a life sciences investment bank that works with life science companies, medical device, diagnostic/proteomics companies. The private company is based in New York, NY. The company connects its life science clients with sources of capital in the venture capital and private equity arena. The CEO of the company is Keith M. Gottesdiener.

GRAIL LLC is a healthcare company. It engages in the development of a technology for early detection of cancer. The company was founded by Jeffrey T. Huber, William H. Rastetter, and Mostafa Ronaghi on September 11, 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Cardurion Pharmaceuticals LLC is a cardiovascular biotechnology company, which engages in the development of therapeutics for the treatment of heart failure and cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded by Michael E. Mendelsohn in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Samsara Biocapital LLC (Samsara Biocapital) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Srinivas Akkaraju. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

ONK Therapeutics Ltd. develops bio cells for anti cancer therapies. The company was founded by Michael O'Dwyer and Anthony Killarney in 2015 and is headquartered in Galway, Ireland.

National Resilience, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical manufacturing and technology company, which engages in the development of vaccines. It offers virus production, formulations, RNA modalities, and CMC development. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Leyden Laboratories B.V. is a biotechnology company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Leyden Labs aims to protect humanity from known and future viruses by targeting commonalities of viral families. The Dutch company has developed a portfolio of accessible intranasal product candidates that may provide people with the freedom to immediately protect themselves from and prevent the spread of many strains of respiratory viruses, including ones in the influenza and coronavirus families. The company's energetic team of world-renowned biotechnology veterans and fresh talent is dedicated to thinking differently to free humanity from the burden of respiratory viruses. Leyden Labs is backed with $200m by blue-chip investors Casdin Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), F-Prime Capital, Byers Capital/Brook Byers, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Invus, and Bluebird Ventures. The company was founded in June 2020 by Koenraad Wiedhaup, Jaap Goudsmit, Domenico Valerio, and Ronald H. P. Brus, with Koenraad Wiedhaup serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Chroma Medicine, Inc. is a biotechnology company that pioneers a new class of genomic medicines using epigenetics to deliver precise, programmable single-dose therapeutics while preserving genomic integrity. The company is based in Cambridge, MA and has subsidiaries in Italy. The company's modular platform enables the development of medicines that can address a wide range of complex diseases, whether they require silencing, activation, or targeting multiple genes at once. Chroma Medicine was founded by the world's foremost experts in genomic research and is led by a veteran team of industry leaders and scientists with deep experience in genomic medicine, drug discovery, and development. Catherine Stehman-Breen has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Treeline Biosciences, Inc. develops transformative precision medicines for patients with cancer. The company is based in Stamford, CT. The company was founded by Joshua H. Bilenker. Joshua H. Bilenker has been the CEO since incorporation.

Transcend Therapeutics is an American biotechnology company that discovers, develops, and delivers next-generation psychoactive medicines to work towards a world where people no longer suffer from neuropsychiatric disease. The company is located in the US. The company focuses on developing medicines that are accessible to a larger percentage of patients in need, specifically the tens of millions of patients who already take psychotropic medication. Transcend Therapeutics has real-world data for its lead compound, TSND-201, demonstrating robust responses in patients with PTSD. As a public benefit corporation, the company has pledged 10% of its founding shares towards nonprofits focused on scientific research and patient access.