John Duncan Higgons

Alkermes, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers medicines for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) diseases. The company was founded by Michael A. Wall, Floyd E. Bloom, Frederick W. K. Brown, Paul R. Schimmel and Alexander G. Rich in 1987 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Archemix Corp. engages in the research and development of aptamer-based therapeutic products. It focuses in the areas of cardiovascular disease hematology, and oncology. The company was founded in May 2001 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Aras Corp. provides enterprise open source software solutions. It offers PLM software solutions that enable companies to improve innovation, collaboration and coordination on a global scale. The firm's comprehensive applications address a wide range of strategic business initiatives across the entire product life cycle, includes program management, product engineering and quality planning. The company was founded by Peter H. Schroer in 2000 and is headquartered in Andover, MA.

TransForm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and manufactures drugs. It integrates pharmaceutical sciences, materials science and high throughput experimentation by enabling novel technology. The company was founded by Nicholas Galakatos in 1999 and is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

Akamis Bio Ltd. operates as a biotechnology company which develops novel therapeutics that addresses cancer and other clinically unmet diseases. Its products include Enadenotucirev, Espindolol and AbEnAd. The firm also develops treatments based upon the research phase vaccine platform PolySTAR, which combines recombinant viral vectors with polymers to shield them from the immune system, and the research phase adjuvant and immunotherapeutic platform PolyMAP, which combines polymers with synthetic adjuvants to significantly enhance the effectiveness of vaccines. The company was founded by Andrew Justin Stewart Coats and Stefan D. Anker on November 17, 2006 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Jounce Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical stage immunotherapy company, which engages in developing treatments for cancer. It also provides novel cancer immunotherapies to attack tumors. The company was founded by Louis M. Weiner, Drew M. Pardoll, Thomas F. Gajewski, James P. Allison, Robert Schreiber, and Padmanee Sharma in 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Rheos Medicines, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical firm. It develops novel medicines that modulate metabolic pathways in immune cells to treat disease. The company was founded by Erika Pearce, Edward Pearce, Laurence Turka, Richard Flavell, Ken Smith, and E. William St. Clair and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.