Alan K. Smith

CHATA Biosystems, Inc. manufactures pre-packaged chemical solutions. It offers its products to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agricultural, beverages, and electronics industries. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Loveland, CO.

Cognate BioServices, Inc. engages in the provision of commercialization services to regenerative medicine, cellular immunotherapy, and cell therapy companies. It offers cGMP clinical and commercial manufacturing; process and assay development and optimization; logistics, supply chain, and manufacturing support services; and clinical, regulatory, and custom services. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.

Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the research, development, manufacture, and commercialization of regenerative medicine products. Its biosurgery business focuses on using unique tissue preservation technologies to develop viable human tissue products designed to improve wound closure and surgical outcomes for patients and physicians over standard of care alone. The company was founded by Peter A. Friedli and James S. Burns on December 23, 1992 and is headquartered in Columbia, MD.

Baxter Healthcare Corp. develops, manufactures, and distributes hospital supplies and medical technologies. It distributes medical treatment options for conditions such as hemophilia, immune disorders, kidney disease, cancer, and trauma. The company was founded on June 21, 1967 and is headquartered in Deerfield, IL.

Theradigm develops stem-cell-based therapies to treat diseases of the central nervous system. Building upon promising pre-clinical data, Theradigm is initially pursuing treatments for stroke and spinal cord injury. Other treatments under development will address traumatic brain injury. Theradigm's stem cells are used to provide trophic support, and potentially to rescue or replace injured tissue in the central nervous system.

Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company. It focuses on discovering and developing cellular immunotherapies for cancers and orphan inherited blood disorders. The firm uses its proprietary chemical induction of dimerization that controls components of the immune system in real time. Its product candidates include BPX-601, BPX-603, and Rivo-cel (rivogenlecleucel, formerly known as BPX-501). The company was founded by Kevin M. Slawin and David M. Spencer on July 14, 2004 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

LifeNet Health, Inc. operates as a full-service organ donation agency and tissue banking system. It offers cardiac, vascular, sports medicine, general orthopedics and trauma, craniomaxillofacial, spine, dental, plastic and reconstructive surgical services. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA.

Akouos, Inc. is a precision genetic medicine company, which engages in the development of precision genetic medicines to restore and preserve hearing in genetically-defined patient populations. The firm's lead product candidate, AK-OTOF, is a gene therapy for the treatment of hearing loss due to mutations in the OTOF gene. It develops targeted adeno-associated viral vector based gene therapies for sensorineural hearing loss, which results from dysfunction or damage to sensory cells and nerve fibers of the inner ear. The company was founded by Emmanuel J. Simons, William F. Sewell, Richard H. Smith, Luk H. Vandenberghe, and Michael J. McKenna on March 7, 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.