Robert Hawkins

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.

Part of Novartis AG, Sandoz AG is a Swiss company that develops generic medicines and biosimilars. The company is based in Basel, Switzerland.

Lonza Biologics Plc manufactures monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins and diagnostic monoclonal antibodies. The company was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Slough, the United Kingdom.

Kowa Research Europe Ltd. engages in research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities. The firm develops NK-104, Pitavastatin; K-877, Pemafibrate; K-333, Peretinoin; and K-115, Ripasudil compounds. The company was founded on January 12, 1999 and is headquartered in Wokingham, the United Kingdom.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

CSL Behring LLC researches, develops, manufactures, and markets biotherapies that are used to treat serious and rare conditions. It offers protein-based therapies in the areas of Bleeding Disorders, Fluid Replacement, Hereditary Angioedema, Immunoglobulin, Pulmonary, and Wound Healing Therapies. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA.

The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering is a nonprofit association that focuses on scientific, technical, and regulatory advancement throughout the entire pharmaceutical lifecycle. The non-profit company is based in Tampa, FL. The company engages with all levels of regulators to ensure that their education, training, document development, and interpretation are cutting-edge and focused on enabling the production and supply of therapies and devices with unmatched levels of flow, efficiency, and quality sustainably and at scale. John Bournas has been the CEO of the company since 2015.

Semantra, Inc. provides ad hoc reporting and analytic software solutions. Its solution parts include a semantic engine that parses natural language, a collection of ontologies and business rules that provide context, and a query generator that creates the appropriate structured query language command to be executed against a targeted database. The company was founded by Marvin Elder in 2003 and is headquartered in Addison, TX.

CPMG, Inc. is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 1972 and was known as Cardinal Investment Company, Inc. until 2005. CPMG provides investment management and other services to various private pooled investment vehicles and separately managed accounts.

PACT Pharma, Inc. develops pharmaceutical products. It offers personalizes adoptive cell therapies with neoantigen-targeted T cells against cancer. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA.

The Electrospinning Co. Ltd. develops and manufactures electro spun polymer scaffolds. The firm offers Minetix 3D tissue culture plates. It sell a range of ready-to-use, sterile tissue culture plates containing the Mimetix scaffold for tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and drug discovery research. The company was founded by Robert Stevens and David Mansel Williams in 2010 and is headquartered in Didcot, the United Kingdom.

Cognate BioServices, Inc. engages in the provision of commercialization services to regenerative medicine, cellular immunotherapy, and cell therapy companies. It offers cGMP clinical and commercial manufacturing; process and assay development and optimization; logistics, supply chain, and manufacturing support services; and clinical, regulatory, and custom services. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.

Cardinal Investment Co., Inc. is an independent investment advisory firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1974, the firm provides investment advice to individual and institutional clients.

Arcadia Exploration & Production Co. provides oil and gas exploration services. It distributes crude oil and petroleum. The company was founded by Gustavus A. Buderin 1929 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Karus Therapeutics Ltd. provides therapies for treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases. It offers HDAC6 and PI3K inhibitors for the treatment of cancer. The firm’s products in pipeline include KA-2237, KAR4000 Series and KAR3000 Series for the treatment of chronic inflammation, haematological malignancies, and solid tumours. The company was founded in July 2005 by Arasu Ganesan, Graham Keith Packham and Paul Townsend and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Kowa Pharmaceutical Europe Co. Ltd. engages in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products. The company was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Wokingham, the United Kingdom.

Novo Ventures (Novo Ventures) is a venture capital operating division of Novo Nordisk Fonden. It engages in investment activities. The firm was established in 1999, and is headquartered in Hellerup, Denmark.

Rainier Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company that develops a targeted biologic for the potential treatment of metastatic bladder cancer. It provides Vofatamab, an antibody that is focused on the fibroblast growth factor of bladder and other cancer. The company was founded by Stephen Lau and is headquartered in San Leandro, CA.

Novo Ventures (US), Inc. is a venture capital firm located in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Novo A/S and their ultimate parent is Novo Nordisk Fonden.

Biopharma Holding ApS functions as a financial holding Danish company. The private company is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Anokion SA provides technology for retraining white blood cells to induce therapeutic immune tolerance. The firm?s approach to antigen-specific immune tolerance can be translated to virtually any protein in numerous clinical indications. The company was founded by Jerffery Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Stephan Kontos, Oscar Buset, Kristen M. Lorentz and David A. Lowin and is headquartered in Ecublens, Switzerland.

Unchained Labs designs, develops, and manufactures tools and devices for biologics research. It sells its products to biopharma and academic customers. The company was founded by Timothy A. Harkness in January 2015 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA.

Kanyos Bio, Inc. engages in the provision of immune tolerance technology solutions. It develops antigen-specific for treatment of type-1 diabetes and celiac disease. The company was founded by Jeffrey Hubbell, Stephan Kontos, Oscar Buset, Kristen M. Lorentz, and David A. Lowin in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Harmony Biosciences LLC operates as a biopharmaceutical company which develops therapies to help patients with unmet medical needs. It provides novel treatment options to patients with orphan and rare conditions, with an emphasis on central nervous system disorders. The company is headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, PA.