Michael Franken

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.

The Column Group LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Peter Svennilson. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

The General Hospital Corp. provides healthcare services. It offers diagnostic and therapeutic are in every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. The firm's care center provides cancer, digestive disorders, heart disease, transplantation and vascular medicine services. The company was founded in 1811 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is a private research university located in the heart of Boston. Northeastern teaches worldwide experiential learning, urban engagement, and interdisciplinary research that meets global and societal needs. The University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate programs leading to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools.

Remix Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It involves in developing small molecule therapies which are designed to reprogram RNA processing to address the underlying drivers of disease. The company was founded by Pete Smith and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Sonata Therapeutics, Inc. is a pioneering private company based in Cambridge, MA that designs single therapeutics to reprogram diseased cells and create curative microenvironments. The company's machine learning-based platform identifies novel insights, targets, and therapeutics across a wide range of disease areas, with a growing pipeline of small molecule drugs and genetic therapeutics. In oncology, Sonata's transformative therapies reprogram cancer cells to release curative signals that reverse immune cell suppression and blockade, empowering the immune system to holistically eradicate tumors and drive cure. Sonata Therapeutics is creating a new class of network medicines™ designed to modulate all the key cell types in a disease microenvironment required to drive disease resolution. The company is also exploring additional therapeutic areas such as fibrosis and tissue regeneration where multicellular networks play a key role. The company has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded in 2022 by flagship pioneering, and the CEO is Volker Herrmann.

Skyline Management LLC (Skyline Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by John Gordon Freund. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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.

Lifevault Bio provides personal biobanking services. It engages in collecting and storing stem cells, DNA and blood plasma for future diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. The company was founded by Trevor Perry, Brad Hamilton and David T. Scadden and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

The National Academy of Medicine (United States) is based in Washington and is focused on improving the health and well-being of individuals through various initiatives. These initiatives include the clinician well-being collaborative, which aims to accelerate the implementation of a national plan for health workforce well-being, and the development of a code of conduct for the use of artificial intelligence in health care. The organization also provides resources to support meaningful community engagement in health and health care programs and policies. Recently, the National Academy of Medicine announced the appointment of Mandy Cohen, a member of the organization, as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additionally, the organization has released a publication celebrating 50 years of progress in biomedical science, health, and health care.

Clear Creek Bio, Inc. engages in the development of therapies that target nucleotide synthesis pathways. The firm focuses on the differentiation blockade in cancer and suppress replication of RNA-based viruses. It uses pharmacodynamic markers to ensure that each patient gets the right drug at the correct dose. The company was founded by David T. Scadden, David B. Sykes, Burt A. Adelman, and Vikram Sheel Kumar in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences is an organization that honors excellence and brings together leaders. The non-profit company is based in Cambridge, MA.

The American College of Physicians operates as a medical-specialty organization. The non-profit company is based in Philadelphia, PA. Darilyn V. Moyer has been the CEO of the company since 2016.

National Cancer Institute provides healthcare services. It specializes in different cancer treatment such as adrenocortical carcinoma, anal cancer, appendix cancer, skin cancer, breast cancer, cardiac tumors, endometrial cancer, and gallbladder cancer. The company was founded in March 1937 and is headquartered in Bethesda, MD.

Garuda Therapeutics, Inc. aims to eliminate the need for donor or patient cells for blood stem cell transplants. The company is based in Natick, MA. The company's platform technology generates off-the-shelf, self-renewing blood stem cells that are HLA-compatible and transgene-free. This technology could potentially provide curative therapies for over 120 diseases. Garuda Therapeutics was founded by Dhvanit Shah, Sean Morrison, and David T. Scadden, with Dhvanit Shah serving as CEO since incorporation.

Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center operates as cancer treatment center. The company was founded by John Warren in 1811 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Harvard Stem Cell Institute provides research regarding stem cells necessary for the understanding of human development and disease and trains next generation stem cell scientists. The company was founded by Doug A. Melton and David T. Scadden in April 2004 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

AviadoBio Ltd. is a gene therapy company based in London, UK. AviadoBio's technology is based on pioneering research from King's College London and the UK Dementia Research Institute. The British company's mission is to develop and deliver transformative gene therapies for neurodegenerative disorders, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The company is developing AVB-101 for patients with FTD-GRN. AviadoBio's investors include New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Monograph Capital, Advent Life Sciences, EQT Lifesciences, Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF), F-Prime Capital, Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC), and LifeArc. The company was founded by Youn Bok Lee, Do Young Lee, Chris E. Shaw, and Lisa Deschamps has been the CEO of the company since 2021.

Judo Bio, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded in 2021 by Chelsea Place Johnson.

Biotechnology Innovation Organization is the world's biotechnology organization, providing advocacy, business development and communications services for more than 1,200 members worldwide. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology technologies. Corporate members range from entrepreneurial companies developing a first product to Fortune 100 multinationals. also represent state and regional biotech associations, service providers to the industry and academic centers.

The Broad Institute, Inc. engages in the provision of research and development in biomedicals to cure infectious disease. Its scientific areas include chemical biology and therapeutics, genome regulation, cellular circuity and epigenomics, medical and population genetics, and metabolism. The company was founded by Eric S. Lander, Eli Broad and Edythe Broad in 2003 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.