John William Ferkany

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.

ARCH Venture Partners LLC is a Venture Capital firm founded in 1986. The firm is headquartered in Chicago with additional office in Dublin.

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

Venrock Associates is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1969. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto.

Zeneca Pharmaceuticals manufactures medicines.

MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops therapies and inhalation delivery technologies. The company was founded by Thomas A. Armer on July 3, 2003 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Kyowa Kirin International Plc is a specialty pharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and commercialization of prescription medicines for the treatment of unmet therapeutic needs in major markets. It offers Sancuso, a prescription medicine used to prevent nausea and vomiting in people receiving some types of chemotherapy treatment and Abstral, a medicine used in the management of breakthrough pain in adult patients using opioid therapy for chronic cancer pain. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Galashiels, the United Kingdom.

Part of Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Zalicus Pharmaceuticals Ltd. develops pharmaceutical products for patients suffering from pain and immuno-inflammatory diseases. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada. Zalicus Pharmaceuticals was acquired by Taro Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from EPIRUS Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. on October 07, 2015 for $45.15 million.

Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that develops pharmaceutical products. Its products include Aptiom (eslicarbazepine acetate) tablets, Latuda (lurasidone HCl) tablets, Lunesta (eszopiclone) tablets, Xopenex (levalbuterol HCl) Inhalation Solution, Xopenex HFA (levalbuterol tartrate) Inhalation Aerosol, Brovana (arformoterol tartrate) Inhalation Solution, Omnaris (ciclesonide) Nasal Spray, Alvesco (ciclesonide) Inhalation Aerosol, and Zetonna (ciclesonide) Nasal Aerosol. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Marlborough, MA.

Alantos Pharmaceuticals Holding, Inc. manufactures bio-pharmaceutical products. The firm develops small molecule compounds for inflammatory cytokine pathways. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, CA.

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. Its products include Ninlaro and Velcade. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Third Rock Ventures LLC (Third Rock Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Mark Levin, Robert Tepper, Kevin Starr and Nick Leschly. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Casma Therapeutics, Inc. operates biotechnology company harnessing natural cellular process of autophagy to design new medicines. The company was founded by Cary Pfeffer and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

The University of Liverpool operates as a university. It offers post graduate research, foundation courses, continuing and professional development, online study, and doctoral college. The company was founded in 1881 and is headquartered in Liverpool, the United Kingdom.

CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. develops and markets innovative medical therapies to the dental and dermatology market. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Newtown, PA.

Verband Beratender Ingenieure VBI is a consulting and engineering association based in Germany.

eGenesis, Inc. operates research platform to deliver human transplantable cells, tissues, and organs grown in pigs. It uses gene editing technology such as CRISPR to directly address the key virology and immunology hurdles that have impeded xenotransplantation. The company was founded by George M. Church, Yang Luhan, Prashant Mali, Geoff Mackay and Guell Marc in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

OncoResponse, Inc. discovers cancer immunotherapies by interrogating the human immune system. The firm identifies elite responders to immunotherapy and screens the adaptive immune system to discover antibodies with reactivity. The company was founded by Clifford J. Stocks, Kristine Swiderek and Steven H. Gillis in 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Just Biotherapeutics, Inc. operates as biotechnology firm. Its products include biosimilars and novel and repositioned biologics. The firm also offers molecular design, process and product platform and manufacturing and plant design services. The company was founded by James N. Thomas, Victor P. Fung, Dean K. Pettit, and Yining Zhao in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Shire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products. The company offers solutions for attention deficit & hyperactivity disorder, human genetic therapies, gastrointestinal, and renal diseases. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Wayne, PA

ImmusanT, Inc. develops a new class of therapeutic vaccines to change the lives of people living with autoimmune diseases. Its Epitope-Specific Immuno-Therapy platform provides a precision medicine approach to restoring immune tolerance across a range of diseases, including celiac disease and type 1 diabetes. The firm’s product Nexvax2, protects celiac disease patients against the debilitating effects of gluten. The company was by Leslie J. Williams and Robert P. Anderson founded in December 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Hibercell, Inc. specializes on tumor dormancy detection and therapeutics. It provides treatment for primary tumors, metastatic cancer. The company was founded by Alan Rigby, Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, and Ari Nowacek and is headquartered in New York, NY.

JBR Pharma, Inc. operates as a virtual pharmaceutical company. The company is headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, PA.

Part of Pfizer Inc., Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an American company that manufactures pharmaceutical products.

Proniras Corp. operates as a bio technology company. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Mozart Therapeutics, Inc. is a company focused on developing first-in-class disease-modifying therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, with a therapeutic focus on autoimmune mediated gastro-intestinal disorders. The company is based in Seattle, WA. The company utilizes a novel approach to restoring immune system function by targeting the CD8 T regulatory network. Mozart Therapeutics is advancing a pipeline of first-in-class ‘CD8 Treg modulators’ designed to restore durable immune balance. The CEO of the company is Katie Fanning.

Walden Biosciences, Inc. provides renal therapeutics services. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

hC Bioscience, Inc. is a biotech company based in Cambridge, MA and has subsidiaries in the United States. A single trna therapy has the potential to treat many diseases, regardless of the gene or location of the mutation. hC Bioscience is dedicated to improving the lives of patients by developing first-in-class trna-based therapeutics that target protein dysfunction. The company's innovative approach to precision protein editing has the potential to treat genetically defined conditions that account for 10-15% of all human diseases. The lead platform in development is directed at restoring protein function in diseases caused by nonsense mutations or premature termination codons (PTCs). The company was founded in 2021 by Leslie J. Williams, who has been the CEO since then.

Part of VBI Vaccines, Inc., VBI Vaccines (Delaware), Inc. develops biopharmaceuticals. Jeffrey R. Baxter has been the CEO of the American company since 2014.

Skylark Bio, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company is based in Cambridge, MA.

SonoThera, Inc. is a biotechnology company founded by Michael H. Davidson, Kenneth P. Greenberg, and Steve Feinstein. The company is based in South San Francisco, CA. The company is dedicated to treating the root cause of human disease through genetic therapy. SonoThera is developing an ultrasound-guided, nonviral gene therapy platform and treatments designed to provide patients with the next generation of safe and effective genetic medicines. The platform utilizes sonoporation, a microbubble-mediated biophysical process to non-invasively deliver genetic payloads selectively targeting a wide range of organs within the body. Kenneth P. Greenberg has been the CEO since incorporation.

TFC Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotech company based in New York, NY. TFC Therapeutics is developing novel biologics to target and eliminate key drivers of cancer recurrence and metastasis. The company is blending early-stage research with innovative platform design to develop next-generation treatments to eliminate the most resilient cancers and put an end to their recurrence before it begins. The company was founded in 2022 and Jennifer Power has been the CEO of the company since 2023.