Dean K. Pettit

Veritas Genetics, Inc. provides breast and ovarian cancer genetic testing services. It operates business through Veritas whole genome sequencing and targeted genetic testing products. The company was founded by Mirza Cifric, Preston Estep III, Joseph Thakuria, Jonathan Zhao and George MacDonald Church in 2014 and is headquartered in Danvers, MA.

LAV Management Co., Ltd. (LAV) is a venture capital subsidiary of Eli Lilly & Co. founded in 2008. The firm is headquartered in Shanghai, China with branches located in Central, Hong Kong and California, United States.

Genzyme Corp. engages in development and manufacture of specialty therapeutic, surgical and diagnostic product. It serves in the areas of rare genetic diseases, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases and endocrinology. The company was founded on June 8, 1981 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Shire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products. The company offers solutions for attention deficit & hyperactivity disorder, human genetic therapies, gastrointestinal, and renal diseases. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Wayne, PA

Walden Biosciences, Inc. provides renal therapeutics services. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Mozart Therapeutics, Inc. is a company focused on developing first-in-class disease-modifying therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, with a therapeutic focus on autoimmune mediated gastro-intestinal disorders. The company is based in Seattle, WA. The company utilizes a novel approach to restoring immune system function by targeting the CD8 T regulatory network. Mozart Therapeutics is advancing a pipeline of first-in-class ‘CD8 Treg modulators’ designed to restore durable immune balance. The CEO of the company is Katie Fanning.

Proniras Corp. operates as a bio technology company. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

JBR Pharma, Inc. operates as a virtual pharmaceutical company. The company is headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, PA.

Verband Beratender Ingenieure VBI is a consulting and engineering association based in Germany.

Hibercell, Inc. specializes on tumor dormancy detection and therapeutics. It provides treatment for primary tumors, metastatic cancer. The company was founded by Alan Rigby, Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, and Ari Nowacek and is headquartered in New York, NY.

ImmusanT, Inc. develops a new class of therapeutic vaccines to change the lives of people living with autoimmune diseases. Its Epitope-Specific Immuno-Therapy platform provides a precision medicine approach to restoring immune tolerance across a range of diseases, including celiac disease and type 1 diabetes. The firm’s product Nexvax2, protects celiac disease patients against the debilitating effects of gluten. The company was by Leslie J. Williams and Robert P. Anderson founded in December 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

eGenesis, Inc. operates research platform to deliver human transplantable cells, tissues, and organs grown in pigs. It uses gene editing technology such as CRISPR to directly address the key virology and immunology hurdles that have impeded xenotransplantation. The company was founded by George M. Church, Yang Luhan, Prashant Mali, Geoff Mackay and Guell Marc in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

OncoResponse, Inc. discovers cancer immunotherapies by interrogating the human immune system. The firm identifies elite responders to immunotherapy and screens the adaptive immune system to discover antibodies with reactivity. The company was founded by Clifford J. Stocks, Kristine Swiderek and Steven H. Gillis in 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Part of VBI Vaccines, Inc., VBI Vaccines (Delaware), Inc. develops biopharmaceuticals. Jeffrey R. Baxter has been the CEO of the American company since 2014.

Petra Pharma Corp. operates as a drug development company that develops novel small molecules for the treatment of cancer and metabolic diseases. The company was founded by Lewis Clayton Cantley and Nathanael S. Gray in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Lodo Therapeutics Corp. engages in the development of novel therapeutics from its metagenomics-based small molecule discovery platform. Its Lodo platform leverages breakthroughs in next-generation sequencing (NGS), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), along with advances in synthetic biology and automation. The company was founded by Sean Brady and David L. Pompliano and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Faraday Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops small molecule drugs for the treatment of central nervous system disorders and cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Acylin Therapeutics, Inc. develops drugs for cancer. The company was founded by Philip A. Cole, Peter S. DiStefano, Ronen Marmorstein, Suresh K. Jain and Roydon Price in 2009 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

W Fund Management LLC (W Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Mr. Hamburg Robert. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

hC Bioscience, Inc. is a biotech company based in Cambridge, MA and has subsidiaries in the United States. A single trna therapy has the potential to treat many diseases, regardless of the gene or location of the mutation. hC Bioscience is dedicated to improving the lives of patients by developing first-in-class trna-based therapeutics that target protein dysfunction. The company's innovative approach to precision protein editing has the potential to treat genetically defined conditions that account for 10-15% of all human diseases. The lead platform in development is directed at restoring protein function in diseases caused by nonsense mutations or premature termination codons (PTCs). The company was founded in 2021 by Leslie J. Williams, who has been the CEO since then.

TFC Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotech company based in New York, NY. TFC Therapeutics is developing novel biologics to target and eliminate key drivers of cancer recurrence and metastasis. The company is blending early-stage research with innovative platform design to develop next-generation treatments to eliminate the most resilient cancers and put an end to their recurrence before it begins. The company was founded in 2022 and Jennifer Power has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

Skylark Bio, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company is based in Cambridge, MA.

Alliance for Education provides public education services. The firm’s programs include Seattle teacher residency and school account services. It offers robust fiscal sponsorship services that enable individual schools and education–related organizations to expand the base of charitable support. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Rgenta Therapeutics, Inc. manufactures medicines for oncology and neurological disorders. The company was founded by Simon Xi, Travis Wager, and Zhiping Weng and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Tmunity Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel products that free the immunological potential of T cells to treat disease indications. It develops novel T Cell Receptor (TCR) engineered T cells, regulatory T cells (Treg), and universal engineered T cell platforms. The company was founded by Carl H. June, Anne Chew, Bruce Levine, Yangbing Zhao, James L. Riley and Bruce Blazar and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.

Fortis Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a immuno-oncology biotech company. It focuses on developing new antibody drug conjugate therapies for late-stage multiple myeloma and late-stage prostate cancer. The company is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

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.

Crown Bioscience, Inc. provides biomedical outsourcing solutions. It provides syngeneic and xenograft tumor models and custom model development and drug testing. The firm produces antibodies for therapeutic, diagnostic and theranostic applications. It also offers preclinical and drug development for anti-cancers therapeutics. The company was founded by Dr. Yiyou Chen, Dr. Yue Alexander Wu, Dr. William Pan and Dr. Faming Zhang in 2006 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Veritas Genetics International Ltd. provides genetics testing services. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Danvers, MA.

SonoThera, Inc. is a biotechnology company founded by Michael H. Davidson, Kenneth P. Greenberg, and Steve Feinstein. The company is based in South San Francisco, CA. The company is dedicated to treating the root cause of human disease through genetic therapy. SonoThera is developing an ultrasound-guided, nonviral gene therapy platform and treatments designed to provide patients with the next generation of safe and effective genetic medicines. The platform utilizes sonoporation, a microbubble-mediated biophysical process to non-invasively deliver genetic payloads selectively targeting a wide range of organs within the body. Kenneth P. Greenberg has been the CEO since incorporation.

BiOneCure Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company based in Germantown, MD. The private company is dedicated to developing innovative antibody-based medicines for the treatment of cancer and enhancing cancer patients' lives. The company has developed proprietary payload platforms that enable a tailor-made approach for ADC drug development. The company is led by industry veterans from Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Amgen, and other similar companies with successful drug discovery and development experience in the ADC field. The company's mission is to provide first-in-class and antibody-based medicines to cancer patients with unmet medical needs. The company was founded in 2017 by Haifeng Bao and Yi Ning Zhao, and Haifeng Bao has been the CEO since incorporation.