Robert J. Garland

Novalar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. It focuses on dental products. The company's OraVerse product (phentolamine mesylate) reverses the effects of local anesthetic with a vasoconstrictor and accelerates the return of normal sensation and function. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Cardioxyl Pharmaceuticals, Inc. discovers and develops therapies and technologies for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. It offers nitroxyl therapeutics, including CXL-1020, a nitroxyl donor compound for the intravenous treatment of acute decompensated heart failure and nitroxyl donor compounds for unmet medical needs in other cardiovascular indications. The company was founded by Vincent J. Kalish and Douglas Cowart in 2005 and is headquartered in Chapel Hill, NC.

Zyngenia, Inc. developed new class of bio-therapeutics. The company was founded by Joseph L. Amprey III, Carlos F. Barbas III and Peter Alec Kiener in 2008 and headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

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.

New Enterprise Associates LLC (New Enterprise Associates) is a venture capital firm founded in 1977. The firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Cleave Biosciences, Inc. engages in the development of cancer drug products. The company was founded by Raymond J. Deshaies, Seth Cohen, Francesco Parlati, Peter A. Thompson and Laura K. Shawver in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Surface Oncology, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company, which engages in the provision of biological pathways critical to the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment for the development of next-generation cancer therapies. The firm’s pipeline includes wholly-owned lead programs targeting CD39 (SRF617) and IL-27 (SRF388), as well as a preclinical program focused on depleting tumor regulatory T cells via targeting CCR8 (SRF114). Its pipeline also includes licensed product programs, such as a collaboration with Novartis targeting CD73 (NZV930, Phase 1) and a collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline targeting PVRIG (SRF813, preclinical). The company was founded by David S. Grayzel in 2014 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.