David Nelles

Ceregene, Inc. develops pharmaceutical products for neurodegenerative disorders. The company was founded in January 2001 and it is headquartered in Richmond, CA.

NextBio Corp. provides a scientific platform to aggregate and interpret quantities of genomic data for research and clinical applications. It offers products for pharmaceutical, bio-tech, academia, and medicine organizations. The company was founded by Saeid Akhtari and Ilya Kupershmidt in 2004 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Tioga Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It develops therapies for the treatment of pruritus. The company was founded by Stuart J. Collinson in 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

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.

Pomona College offers curriculum in the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. It was founded in 1887 and it is headquartered in Claremont, CA

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC provides legal services. Its services include corporate law and governance, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, antitrust counseling and litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology licensing and other intellectual property transactions, tax, and employee benefits and employment law. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

National Institutes Of Health conducts & supports peer-reviewed medical research and science. The firm's scientists & researchers investigate on different ways to prevent diseases as well as the causes, treatments and cures for common and rare diseases. The company was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America provides pharmaceutical research and biotechnology services. It represents the country’s biopharmaceutical research companies, which are devoted to discovering and developing medicines that enable patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. The company was founded in 1958 and is headquartered Washington, DC.

Accelerator Services Corp (Accelerator Services) is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Carl Weissman and Rodney F. Burgar. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Magenta Corp. manufactures plastic injection molds. The American company was founded by Jeffrey M. Ostrove.

Inspirna, Inc. operates as a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company which develops molecule and antibody cancer therapeutics. It provides drugs for melanoma, colorectal and triple-negative breast cancers. The firm identifies novel cancer targets using a microRNA based target discovery platform that enable the identification and validation of novel post-transcriptionally regulated targets. The company was founded by Masoud Tavazoie, Sohail Tavazoie, Shahram Seyedin-Noor and Saeed Tavazoie in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Civilization Ventures LLC (Civilization Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2016 by Shahram Seyedin-Noor. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

DTx Pharma, Inc. engages in the provision of biotechnology solutions. It focuses on the utilization of fatty acids to enable the delivery of RNA therapeutics to tissues and organ systems beyond the liver. The company was founded by Arthur T. Suckow, John Grundy, and Adam Pavlicek in August 2017 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Ribometrix, Inc. develops small molecule drugs that target functional RNA structures to create new avenues to treat human disease. The company was founded by Kevin Weeks and Katie Warner and is headquartered in Greenville, NC.

The Allen Institute for Immunology is a nonprofit bioscience research institute.

Proteona Pte Ltd. engages in the provision of bioinformatics support and solutions. The firm offers ESCAPE platform. The company was founded by Eugene Yeo, Shawn Hoon, and Jonathan Scolnick on July 6, 2017 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Cell Applications, Inc. provides biotechnology research services. The private company is based in San Diego, CA.

Eclipse Bioinnovations, Inc. is a private biotechnology company that develops first-in-class technologies to accelerate the development of RNA genomics discoveries and medicines. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The company offers its end-to-end RNA genomics products as services and kits and also provides custom RNA genomics services for select partners. Laboratory at UC San Diego. Eclipse Bio is an RNA next-generation sequencing (NGS) company founded in 2017 based on technologies and algorithms developed in Dr. The company was founded by Alexander Shishkin, Peter Chu, and Eugene W. Yeo. Peter Chu has been the CEO since incorporation.

Ensoma, Inc. believes in the future of medicine and is committed to creating a new therapeutic category to tackle diseases that affect millions around the world, such as cancer and autoimmune disease, as well as inherited conditions. Ensoma is based in Boston, MA and has subsidiaries in Denmark. The company's engenious™ platform combines innovative delivery technology with the full DNA editing toolkit to address these disorders. Ensoma is supported by top-tier investors, a strategic collaboration with Takeda, and a passionate team. The company was founded by André Lieber, Hans-Peter Kiem, Kush M. Parmar, and the CEO is Emile F. Nuwaysir.

Foresight Diagnostics, Inc. is a privately held cancer diagnostics company based in Aurora, CO. The company has developed a liquid biopsy testing platform for the measurement of minimal residual disease (MRD) that is significantly more sensitive than existing tests, with a detection limit below 0.0001% or one part-per-million. This improved sensitivity provides actionable information to physicians and biopharmaceutical companies to enable more personalized treatment approaches for patients with a variety of cancers. The company's experts specialize in liquid biopsy and cancer genomics, developing an MRD assay centered on the detection of ctdna via phased variant sequencing. The company uses phased-seq® liquid biopsy technology for cancer relapse surveillance by monitoring cfdna/ctdna in the blood of lymphoma and lung cancer patients. The company was founded by Maximilian Diehn, Ash Alizadeh, Jake Chabon, and David Kurtz, with Jake Chabon serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Trotana, Inc. discovers and develops medicines. The company is based in San Diego, CA. The CEO of the company is Hamza Suria.

Orbital Therapeutics, Inc. is a company based in Cambridge, MA that aims to enhance health by utilizing RNA-based medicines to treat human diseases in innovative ways. The company is building a platform that combines RNA technology delivery methods, data science, and automation to develop a portfolio of medicines focused on vaccines, immunomodulation, protein replacement, and regenerative medicine. The company was founded by Drew Weissman, John M. Maraganore, Kristina M. Burow, Ravindra Majeti, Giuseppe Ciaramella, Eugene W. Yeo, Howard Y. Chang, and Carol Suh, with Giuseppe Ciaramella serving as the CEO since incorporation.