Ronald Herbst

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.

NewLeaf Symbiotics, Inc. develops and commercializes a family of beneficial bacteria. It commercializes Pink Pigmented Facultative Methylotrophs bacteria that improves plant health, promote early growth, and increase crop yield. The company was founded by Stephen Kahn, Thomas R. Laurita and Michael Bielski in 2012 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. engages in the provision of management consulting services. It specializes in automotive and mobility; biopharmaceuticals; consumer products; education; oil and gas; power and utilities; engineered products and infrastructure; financial institutions; and health care payers, providers, and services. It offers big data and advanced analytics; change management; client learning and enablement; and corporate development and financial services. The company was founded by Bruce Doolin Henderson in 1963 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.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Longwood Fund Management LLC (Longwood Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Christoph H. Westphal, Michelle Detwiler and Richard H. Aldrich. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bamboo Therapeutics, Inc. develops gene therapy products for central nervous system and neuromuscular diseases. Its therapeutic platform is based on the use of Adeno-associated virus as a gene therapy vehicle. The company’s proprietary technologies include chimeric vectors, self-complementary vectors, and dual glycan receptor. It focuses on the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, giant axonal neuropathy, Friedreich ataxia, and Canavan disease. Bamboo Therapeutics was founded by Richard Jude Samulski, Sheila A. Mikhail, Josh Grieger, Xiao Xiao, and Paola Leone in December 2014 and is headquartered in Chapel Hill, NC.

CureDuchenne Ventures LLC (CureDuchenne Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of CureDuchenne, founded in 2014 by Debra Miller. The firm is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

Triumvira Immunologics, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. The company was founded by Jonathan Bramson in 2015 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Canada.

Agent Capital LLC (Agent Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Geeta Vemuri. The firm is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

SpringWorks Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of biopharmaceutical products for patients with severe rare diseases and cancer. It focuses in advancing the pipeline of standalone and combination therapies with an initial focus on rare diseases and oncology. The company was founded by Lara S. Sullivan in 2017 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

Depixus SAS is a life science technology company based in Paris, France. Depixus is pioneering ground-breaking magna™ technology based on magnetic force spectroscopy, revealing dramatic new insights into complex biomolecular interactions at the single molecule level. The French company was founded by Gordon Hamilton and has been the CEO since incorporation.

Exonics Therapeutics, Inc. develops therapies for neuromuscular diseases. It also develops gene editing technologies like CRISPR/Cas9 to permanently correct the majority of duchenne muscular dystrophy mutations. The company was founded by Eric N. Olson in February 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Iterum Therapeutics International Ltd. engages in the development of clinical-stage pharmaceutical products. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Iterum Therapeutics US Holding Ltd. operates as a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and manufactures pharmaceutical products. The private company is based in Hartford.

RASRx LLC provides research and development laboratories services. The company is headquartered in San Luis Obispo, CA.

Disc Medicine, Inc. engages in the development of therapies addressing ineffective red blood cell production in hematologic diseases. Its product pipeline includes anti-hemojuvelin antibody and Matriptase-2 inhibitor. The company was founded by Brian MacDonald and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Trinds LLC operates as a contract research organization which conducts research in neuromuscular and rare disorders. It offers solutions in clinical operations, data management, patient science liaison services, study measurements, and biostatistics. The company was founded by Avital Cnaan, Heather Gordish-Dressman and Eric Hoffman and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Vesigen, Inc. develops groundbreaking therapeutic products directed to intracellular targets using a scalable and extracellular vesicle delivery technology. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Ensoma, Inc. believes in the future of medicine and is committed to creating a new therapeutic category to tackle diseases that affect millions around the world, such as cancer and autoimmune disease, as well as inherited conditions. Ensoma is based in Boston, MA and has subsidiaries in Denmark. The company's engenious™ platform combines innovative delivery technology with the full DNA editing toolkit to address these disorders. Ensoma is supported by top-tier investors, a strategic collaboration with Takeda, and a passionate team. The company was founded by André Lieber, Hans-Peter Kiem, Kush M. Parmar, and the CEO is Emile F. Nuwaysir.

Avoro Ventures LLC (Avoro Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Avoro Capital Advisor LLC founded in 2020. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Incendia Therapeutics, Inc. develops a novel class of anti-cancer therapies. The company is based in Boston, MA. The company was founded in 2003 by Laurent Audoly, Colin Glenn Begley, Olga Granaturova, Guy Travis Clifton. Laurent Audoly has been the CEO since 2003.

Affini-T Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Watertown, MA. Affini-t is focused on developing potentially curative therapies for solid tumor cancers by unlocking the power of T cells and targeting core oncogenic drivers. The company's differentiated cell therapy platform harnesses state-of-the-art engineering and synthetic biology capabilities to optimize T cell functions and rewrite the rules of the solid tumor microenvironment, enabling the potential for sustained clinical outcomes in patients. The company is targeting Kras and other oncogenic and viral driver mutations to open a new and differentiated target space, thereby minimizing the risk of cancer. The company was founded by Jak Knowles and Arjun Goyal, with Jak Knowles serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Arix Bioscience /Venture Capital/ (Arix Bioscience) is a venture capital subsidiary of Arix Bioscience Plc founded in 2015 by Christopher Thomas Evans, Jonathan M. Peacock and Joseph Anderson. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with an additional offices in New York.