Thomas Smart

Acologix, Inc. develops and commercializes medicines. The company was founded by Yoshinari Kumagai in 1992 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

XOMA (US) LLC develops pharmaceutical preparations. It offers proprietary drugs and toiletries. The company is headquartered in Emeryville, CA.

GenVec, Inc. operated as a clinical-stage gene delivery company, which engaged in the development of therapeutics and vaccines. The firm designs, tests, and manufactured adenoviral-based product candidates using its proprietary AdenoVerse platform. Its products included CGF166-Hearing Loss; GV2311-RSV Vaccine; and GV2207-HSV-2 Immunotherapeutic. The company was founded in December 1992 and was headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Cell Genesys is a development-stage biotechnology firm focuses on gene-modification technologies to treat cancer. The company's lead product technology is its GVAX vaccine platform. Cell Genesys is working on GVAX vaccines for lung, prostate, and pancreatic cancer, as well as for leukemia and multiple myeloma, another blood cancer. Its oncolytic viral therapy platform uses specially engineered adenoviruses (such as the common cold) to kill cancer cells; the firm's lead candidate from this platform targets prostate cancer.

Genetics Institute LLC develops pharmaceutical products through recombinant DNA and other genetic technologies. It develops drugs to make the blood of hemophiliacs clot, as well as substances that stimulate the production of red and white blood cells and proteins that enhance bone growth. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

RIGImmune, Inc. is a platform biopharmaceutical company based in Farmington, CT, with subsidiaries in the United Kingdom. The company is developing a novel investigational class of RNA immunotherapies called "SLRs" for the potential pan-viral treatment and prophylaxis of viral respiratory diseases and selected cancers. The lead development candidate at RIGImmune is RIG-101, which specifically modulates RIG-I, a host surveillance pathway that triggers the innate immune system to enhance an intrinsic response to RNA viruses, including influenza, RSV, rhinovirus, and SARS-CoV-2, and tumor DNA. The company was founded in 2020 by Akiko Iwasaki and Anna Marie Pyle, both prominent Yale University professors who currently serve as scientific advisors to the company.