Hal Barron

Genentech, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products for life-threatening medical conditions. It studies various areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmic diseases, microbial pathogenesis, metabolic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and opportunistic areas. The company was founded by Herb W. Boyer and Robert A. Swanson in 1976 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical instruments, and diagnostics solutions. The company was founded by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche on October 1, 1896 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Roche Pharmaceuticals provides research and development services in the fields of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. It also provides diagnostics and drugs for cancer and transplantation. The company is headquartered in Nutley, NJ.

Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company. It focused on the research, development and commercialization of novel proprietary products for the acute treatment of central nervous system conditions. Its product candidates are AZ-002 and AZ-007. The company was founded by Alejandro C. Zaffaroni in 2000 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Arête Therapeutics, Inc. develops and commercializes molecule drugs to treat cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases. It focuses on developing AR9281, an orally-administered compound that inhibits s-EH (soluble epoxide hydrolase), an enzyme that plays a key role in the metabolism of arachidonic acid. It also focuses on testing various back-up candidates as additional first-in-class anti-hypertensive plus agents. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Hayward, CA.

TESARO, Inc. is an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research and development of biopharmaceutical products. The firm offers Niraparib products. The company was founded by Leon Oliver Moulder, Jr., Mary Lynne Hedley, and Richard J. Rodgers on March 26, 2010 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

UCSF Medical Center owns and operates hospitals. It operates hospitals in San Francisco as well as satellite facilities. It provides health care facilities to children, organ transplants, cardiac care, fertility treatments, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, and orthopedics. It also provides outpatient care and some programs in areas as women's health, aging, cancer, and pain management. UCSF Medical Center is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.