Amanda Hargrove

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.

Advent Venture Partners LLP (AVP) is a private equity/venture capital firm founded in 1981 by David James Scott Cooksey. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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.

Arvinas Operations, Inc. develops novel therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, pro-inflammatory, autoimmune and rare diseases. It offers proteolysis-targeting chimera PROTAC-based drugs that induce protein degradation to target and eliminate disease-causing proteins from the body. The company was founded by Craig M. Crews in July 2013 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Canaan Management, Inc. (Canaan Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1987 by Eric A. Young. The firm is headquartered in Westport, CT.

Nextech Invest AG (Nextech) is an independent venture capital firm with headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. It was founded by Alfred Scheidegger in 1998. Nextech's investors include public pension funds, banks, asset management companies and Swiss and German high-net worth individuals.

Adnexus engages in the development of Adnectins biologics and medicines in the United States. The company was founded by Frank D. Lee on September 16, 2002 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

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

Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary operates as hospital that provides patient care for disorders of the eye, ear, nose, throat, head and neck. It offers ophthalmology and otolaryngology research services and is a teaching partner of Harvard Medical School. The firm’s programs and services include anesthesiology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, radiology, Coolidge Clinic laboratory and libraries. The company was founded in 1824 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Avila Therapeutics, Inc. researches and develops covalent drugs. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Summit, NJ.

New England Venture Capital Association, Inc. is a non-profit organization which operates as a catalyst, and advocate, and a resource for the innovation economy. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Ploughshare Innovations Ltd. provides technology development and transfer services for the United Kingdom ministry of defense. The firm offers technologies to the life science, defence, cyber, biometrics, detection, diagnostics and electronics industries. The company was founded on March 22, 2002 and is headquartered in Stockbridge, the United Kingdom.

venBio Partners LLC (venBio) is a venture capital subsidiary of Venbio Partners LP founded in 2009 by Adelman robert and Goodman corey. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Scholar Rock, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It focuses on discovering and developing a novel class of biologic therapies that target supracellular activation of growth factors in the disease microenvironment. The company was founded by Timothy Springer and Leonard Zon and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Vividion Therapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. The company focuses on developing innovative therapeutics that treat major unmet clinical needs using the first platform for proteome wide drug and target discovery. It's proprietary chemoproteomic platform technology addresses the key limitations of conventional screening techniques and allows the discovery of previously unknown, or cryptic, functional pockets on the surface of proteins and identification of small molecules that selectively bind to those targets. The company was founded by Benjamin F. Cravatt, Phil S. Baran, Jin-Quan Yu and John K. Clarke on December 24, 2013 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Snoody Ltd. develops and supplies antiviral and healing technology for various product applications. It provides wound dressings, mastitis prevention products, ulcer preventing socks, face masks, and integrated pathogen defense products. The company was founded in 2009 by Paul Francis Hope and is headquartered in Manchester, the United Kingdom.

Aeovian Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the development of pharmaceuticals. It offers inhibitors for the treatment of rare and age-related diseases. The company was founded by Stelios T. Tzannis in 2012 and is headquartered in Novato, CA.

Hexagon Bio, Inc. operates as a data-driven biotechnology company. It engages in mining of fungal genome data for drugs. The company was founded by Maureen E. Hillenmeyer, Brian T. Naughton, Colin James Bell Harvey and Yi Tang and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

NorthSea Therapeutics BV operates as a biotechnology company. It develops oral, structurally engineered fatty acid therapeutics. The company was founded by Hilde H. Steineger and David A. Fraser and is headquartered in Naarden, the Netherlands.

Stargazer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. manufactures pharmaceutical products. The firm engages in the development of treatment for Stargardt’s disease, a rare form of juvenile, retinal degeneration. The company was founded by Gary Jay Sternberg and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

A2 Biotherapeutics, Inc. operates as a biotechnology company. It develops medicines. The company was founded by Alexander Kamb, Michael Gallo and Paul Kang in 2018 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, CA.

Comet Therapeutics, Inc. develops and commercializes treatments for patients suffering from metabolic, neurological and immunological disorders. The company was founded by Angellina Sekirnik and Enej Kuscer in 2008 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Attralus, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company. The firm focuses on illuminating the systemic nature of amyloidosis and creating transformative medicines to improve the lives of patients. The company was founded by Jonathan Wall in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pharvaris GmbH operates as a clinical-stage company. It specializes in medicinal chemistry, drug discovery and development and hereditary angioedema. The company was founded by Berndt A. E. Modig, Jochen Knolle, Anne Lesage and Hans G. C. P. Schikan in October 2015 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

Locki Therapeutics Ltd. is a British preclinical stage biotechnology company founded in 2019. The company is based in London, UK. Locki Therapeutics is developing a new class of drugs that enhance the function of beneficial proteins. The company has designed its proprietary encompass™ platform to create enhancement-targeting chimeric (entac™) medicines. These entacs harness the ability of dubs to regulate proteins, expanding the universe of treatable diseases.

RADD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a company based in Westport, CT. The CEO of the company is Colleen Cuffaro.

35Pharma, Inc. designs and develops biologics for diseases of high unmet medical need. The CEO of the Canadian company is Ilia A. Tikhomirov.

Ventus Medical Ltd. develops novel inhalation and NRT smoking cessation technologies. The company is based in Liverpool, UK. The British company was founded in 2014 by David Lawson, Mark Dignum.

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.